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e’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.

Nationwide, agency staffing has dropped by 36% since the Trump administration took over, and wildlife refuges, already d...
09/03/2026

Nationwide, agency staffing has dropped by 36% since the Trump administration took over, and wildlife refuges, already debilitated by scant resources, continue to lose employees. “That hasn't improved,” a refuge advocate said. “How could it, if you lose 35% of your staff nationwide?”

Nationwide, agency staffing has dropped by 36% since 2024 and wildlife refuges, already debilitated by a lack of resources, continue to lose employees.

09/03/2026

The Real Rattlesnakes of Sinks Canyon: Some lack rattles, others den alone but shed their skins with friends.

One of the most likely spots in Wyoming to spot a prairie rattler has never been studied until now, and an in-the-works scientific inquiry suggests that there’s a unique population full of quirky traits.

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OPINION: Our understanding of wildfires in the West grows as we live alongside them, writes columnist Walt Gasson.
09/03/2026

OPINION: Our understanding of wildfires in the West grows as we live alongside them, writes columnist Walt Gasson.

Our understanding of wildfires in the West grows as we live alongside them, writes columnist Walt Gasson.

A legislative panel voted this week against repealing the tax altogether, marking a shift in a years-long effort to reva...
09/03/2026

A legislative panel voted this week against repealing the tax altogether, marking a shift in a years-long effort to revamp the state’s tax system. Meanwhile, only 44% of eligible homeowners took advantage of a recently adopted exemption.

Legislative panel votes down a bill that it supported a year ago to repeal residential property taxes.

One of the most likely spots in Wyoming to spot a prairie rattler — Sinks Canyon — has never been studied until now. Uni...
09/03/2026

One of the most likely spots in Wyoming to spot a prairie rattler — Sinks Canyon — has never been studied until now. University of Idaho researcher Emily Martin’s scientific inquiry found a unique population full of quirky traits.

One of the most likely spots in Wyoming to spot a prairie rattler has never been studied until now, and an in-the-works scientific inquiry suggests that there’s a unique population full of quirky traits.

Data center developers pitched local control to a packed room during a county commissioner meeting regarding a proposed ...
09/02/2026

Data center developers pitched local control to a packed room during a county commissioner meeting regarding a proposed $500 million campus near Casper. Residents had questions about water rights, pollution and local control.
From Oil City News

Data center developers pitch local control to a packed room during discussion with county commissioners regarding proposed $500 million campus near Casper.

09/02/2026

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Improved staffing across Wyoming correctional facilities allowed the Wyoming Department of Corrections to bring 240 inma...
09/02/2026

Improved staffing across Wyoming correctional facilities allowed the Wyoming Department of Corrections to bring 240 inmates back from a Mississippi prison, where they were sent in 2023, according to WDOC Director Dan Shannon.

Legislature’s state employee pay boosts helped department “be more competitive in the regional job market.”

OPINION: Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon was upset at the U.S. Justice Department’s aggressive attempt to monitor the state’s p...
09/02/2026

OPINION: Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon was upset at the U.S. Justice Department’s aggressive attempt to monitor the state’s primary election at Cheyenne polling places. Columnist Kerry Drake asks why Secretary of State Chuck Gray defended an action opposed in the GOP’s platform.

Even state GOP feels that way, but Secretary of State Gray defends feds’ monitoring of primary election, writes columnist Kerry Drake.

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