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Former child actor Tommy Kirk who appeared in movies like Old Yeller and The Shaggy Dog has passed away.

Barry Livingston is teaming up with several stars to raise money for The Hollywood Museum.

Bureau of Land Management Wyomings US Rep. Liz Cheney envisions a dark future for her home state under President Joe Biden. If the new administration extends its pause on new oil and gas drilling on public land, it would endanger Wyomings economy, kill 18,000 jobs and cause the energy state to lose out on critical education, infrastructure, and healthcare funding. Biden would be "cutting off a major lifeline that Americans have relied on to survive during this time," she has said. But ther...

Wyoming representative Liz Cheney says the study proves Biden’s policies would destroy state economies. But it has the oil and gas industry’s fingerprints all over it

LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has reviewed the impact of President Joe Biden’s temporary moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands, finding significant potential impacts on Wyoming oil and gas production, access to existing and future reserves, as well as state revenue. EORI says its analysis of the federal lease moratorium on Wyoming’s conventional oil reserves is stark due to the fact that the federal government owns 68 perce...

Laramie High School Competes in Two More State Championships It’s another state championship weekend for Laramie High School student-athletes with girls’ indoor track and alpine skiing ending their season. Laramie will take nine girls to the indoor track championships on Saturday in Gillette. They have three competing in individual events, while the other six are part of two relays that qualified. One relay, the 4x200, is a replacement for a team that was qualified but had to drop out. Head...

March 4, 2021 The University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has reviewed the impact of President Joe Biden’s temporary moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands, finding significant potential impacts on Wyoming oil and gas production, access to existing and future reserves, as well as state revenue. EORI says its analysis of the federal lease moratorium on Wyoming’s conventional oil reserves is stark due to the fact that the federal government owns 68 perc...

President Joe Biden’s Jan. 27 order to pause oil and gas leasing on federal lands hit Wyoming on Friday as the BLM postponed the auction of 383 parcels covering almost half a million acres. The leasing pause will enable a review that’s part of an all-government fight against “a profound climate crisis” exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels, Biden’s order states. The BLM had scheduled the first-quarter 2021 sale of development rights on 476,506 acres for March 15 after deciding th...

406 views Only a day after taking office, the new Biden administration announced a temporary suspension of new drilling permits on federal land and foreshadowed further efforts to place a moratorium on leasing. Though not unexpected, the move is a shot across the bow for energy producers across the country, and particularly in states with prolific federal lands development like New Mexico. Acting Secretary of the Interior Scott de la Vega issued Secretarial Order No. 3395 that temporarily suspe...

(Shutterstock) CASPER, Wyo — Wyoming’s Governor and Congressional leaders weighed in last week on the Biden administration’s 60-day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters. Department of the Interior Acting Secretary Scott de la Vega signed the order on Wednesday. Governor Mark Gordon Thursday called the ban  “unnecessary, punitive and contrary to President Biden’s pledge to unify our nation and get people back to work.” “These types o...