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Game and Fish Commission approves 2022 budget WGFD CHEYENNE, Wyo. (KIFI) - The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission met this week in Sheridan, and the seven-member board approved the annual Game and Fish budget — a regular task at July meetings. The operational budget, which supports the day-to-day work for the department, was approved at $81.3 million. The Commission also approved $3.7 million for one-time projects, that include a new Game and Fish website, a number of wildlife research projects and an independent facilitator for the Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce. Game and Fish doesn’t rec...

Game and Fish commission approves annual budget Aaron Brown © Provided by Cheyenne-Scottsbluff KGWN-TV Wyoming Game and Fish. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Release) - The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission met this week in Sheridan. The seven-member board approved the annual Game and Fish budget — a regular task at July meetings. The operational budget, which supports the day-to-day work for the department, was approved at $81.3 million. The Commission also approved $3.7 million for one-time projects, that include a new Game and Fish website, a number of wildlife research projects and an...

The legislative session cruises toward its end as the major remaining pieces of the state’s budget, more than a billion in federal aid, and $120 million in proposed tax cuts solidified Wednesday. House Bill 2, the state’s main budget bill that will spend more than $12 billion in state and federal money, advanced from a free conference committee with some significant changes. It and the other budget pieces all cleared the Senate late Tuesday and are awaiting action in the House. Sen. Ryan Osmundson, who chairs the Senate Finance and Claims Committee, told the Senate Tuesday the budge...

Get ready for another gas tax increase in a few months. It’s part of the consecutive increase over the last few years to help fund road and bridge projects.

A section of the American Rescue Plan Act signed by President Joe Biden on March 11 says states can't use the money to directly or indirectly offset a net reduction in tax revenue from any sort of tax cuts. But there are also proposals to increase revenues, like a bill to re-align Montana's corporate tax structure and the legalization of recreational cannabis passed by voters last fall. Like much of the federal aid package, which Congress still needs to craft rules for spending, it's not known yet if the section about no net tax reductions could affect Gianforte's plans. At the start of a hea...