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Send tips to [email protected] WyoFile began in early 2008 as the brainchild of founder Christopher Findlater, who got together with a small group of veteran Wyoming journalists to plan how to give Wyoming better in-depth news coverage through an on-line platform. Findlater was Wyofile’s primary financial backer for its first two years. Rone Tempest was WyoFile’s first long-time editor. He had retired to Wyoming, where he had spent part of his childhood, after serving as the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in New Delhi, Beijing, and Paris. In 2011, WyoFile was able to hire Dustin Bleizeffer, long-time energy reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune, as editor-in-chief. Rone Tempest has continued as a free-lancer for WyoFile. WyoFile’s financial base has expanded over the years to include support in grants and donations from the John S. and James Knight Foundation, The George B. Storer Foundation, and Christopher Findlater, among others. WyoFile has partnered with the Wyoming Community Foundation in conjunction with a 2012 Knight Foundation Community Information Challenge grant. WyoFile also received grants from the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation yearly since 2011. These recent partnerships resulted in a project to expand WyoFile’s reporting capabilities, for increased coverage of government & policy, and of the Wind River Indian Reservation and Native American issues. For the Knight Foundation Community Information Challenge grant awarded in 2010, WyoFile was sponsored by the Lander Community Foundation. WyoFile is also a member of the Investigative News Network, an associate member of the Wyoming Press Association, and works in collaboration with Wyoming’s legacy media, and other news organizations. WyoFile is also supported by reader donations, and we need more of your help. If you support our in-depth reporting on Wyoming’s people, places and policy, please donate what you can. If you can’t make a financial donation, please campaign to get your friends and co-workers to sign up for WyoFile’s free email subscription. The larger our subscription list, the easier it is for us to raise money.

BREAKING: Yellowstone National Park and Tallgrass, a Colorado company building an AI power hub near Cheyenne, announced ...
10/19/2026

BREAKING: Yellowstone National Park and Tallgrass, a Colorado company building an AI power hub near Cheyenne, announced a $105 million conservation and stewardship fund for the country’s first national park. The nonprofit Yellowstone Forever joined the announcement.
https://wyofile.com/yellowstone-receives-record-105-million-gift-for-infrastructure-conservation-access/

Tallgrass, a Blackstone portfolio company that’s building an AI power hub near Cheyenne, said the gift will strengthen the park’s connection to Wyoming residents.

Republican frontrunner Chuck Gray was a no-show, but Democrat Lisa Kinney, Constitution Party candidate Jeffrey Haggit a...
10/17/2026

Republican frontrunner Chuck Gray was a no-show, but Democrat Lisa Kinney, Constitution Party candidate Jeffrey Haggit and Libertarian Shawn Johnson came to Riverton to pitch Wyoming voters on their candidacies.

Republican Chuck Gray was a no-show, but Democrat Lisa Kinney, Constitution Party candidate Jeffrey Haggit and Libertarian Shawn Johnson came to Riverton to pitch Wyoming voters on their candidacies.

10/17/2026

A heated governor’s debate and plans for election monitors to return to Wyoming. This is Wrapped, your weekend round up of WyoFile’s top stories. Read these stories and more at WyoFile.com, and follow WyoFile for more reporting across the Equality State.
This video was created with the assistance of AI.
Photo credits: Carl Cote/County 10, Dan Cepeda for Oil City News and WyoFile, Mike Vanata for WyoFile, Lauren Miller/Casper Star-Tribune, Kinley Bollinger, Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile/EcoFlight, The White House, Katie Klingsporn/WyoFile, Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Department and Courtesy/Hogg family

Democrat Ana Cordova and Republican Steve Harshman squared off to talk about AI, school choice and teacher pay in Thursd...
10/16/2026

Democrat Ana Cordova and Republican Steve Harshman squared off to talk about AI, school choice and teacher pay in Thursday’s televised debate. Differences emerged in classroom experience and school choice stances, though the tone was civil.

Candidates Ana Cordova and Steve Harshman talked about AI, school choice and teacher pay in Thursday’s televised debate.

In some of the last votes they’ll make as state lawmakers, Wyoming Freedom Caucus members and allies voted Thursday to s...
10/16/2026

In some of the last votes they’ll make as state lawmakers, Wyoming Freedom Caucus members and allies voted Thursday to sponsor a slate of legislation to revamp the state’s election system. They also rejected a resolution intended to combat dark money.

After the caucus lost its majority in the August primary, its priority bills are likely dead on arrival in 2027.

OPINION: Despite what the Trump administration would have us think, wolves are simply not out to get us, writes Writers ...
10/16/2026

OPINION: Despite what the Trump administration would have us think, wolves are simply not out to get us, writes Writers on the Range contributor Story Warren.

Despite what the Trump administration would have us think, wolves are simply not out to get us, writes Writers on the Range contributor Story Warren.

OPINION: Watching from Wyoming, Cornell University’s Jane Doe walks a familiar, uncomfortable path, writes columnist Jes...
10/16/2026

OPINION: Watching from Wyoming, Cornell University’s Jane Doe walks a familiar, uncomfortable path, writes columnist Jessica Brauer.

Watching from Wyoming, Cornell University’s Jane Doe walks a familiar, uncomfortable path, writes columnist Jessica Brauer.

Photo Friday: Biology major Will Anderson left no stone unturned in a search for a rare extremophile that took him and a...
10/16/2026

Photo Friday: Biology major Will Anderson left no stone unturned in a search for a rare extremophile that took him and a fellow student into Yellowstone’s debris-covered glaciers. The effort was rewarded this summer with his discovery of three of the Grylloblattodea, or ice crawlers.

Grylloblattodea is one of the rarest orders of insects in the world, with only 35 described species.

Game and Fish’s position is rooted in a desire for local control, but some former employees aren’t buying the argument. ...
10/15/2026

Game and Fish’s position is rooted in a desire for local control, but some former employees aren’t buying the argument. At stake are 3.3 million backcountry acres in Wyoming.

Game and Fish’s position is rooted in the desire for state and local communities to have more say in federal land management, officials say.

Republican Eric Barlow, Democrat Kenneth Casner and the Constitution Party’s Rebecca Bextel squared off Wednesday in the...
10/15/2026

Republican Eric Barlow, Democrat Kenneth Casner and the Constitution Party’s Rebecca Bextel squared off Wednesday in the one televised debate scheduled ahead of November's general election. Here’s what you need to know.

Barlow, the Republican nominee, kept things positive while the Constitution Party’s Bextel stayed in attack mode.

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