Dustin Bleizeffer

CASPER – Dozens of Rocky Mountain Power customers filed into a ballroom at the Ramkota Hotel on Tuesday afternoon with questions about why their electric bills have increased and why the monopoly utility is asking for yet another rate hike.

Lawmakers have tried for years to reduce what solar users can earn from selling excess power to the grid, but the court invalidated one utility’s low payments.

The Bureau of Land Management rejected state and coal-interest arguments against a Powder River Basin coal leasing ban, setting the stage for litigation.

The boxcar-housed installation, currently located in Laramie, will travel to Wyoming towns along the Interstate 80 railroad corridor.

The county’s limited ‘commercial mining’ prohibition puts it at odds with state officials who say local governments can’t stand in the way of state lands management.

GILLETTE — Federal land managers have rejected protests filed by coal mining interests — including the state of Wyoming and representatives of two of its counties — that tried to

The Natrona County Board of Commissioners' vote to block a hotly contested gravel mine operation at the base of Casper Mountain is the latest move in a dustup over counties' right to potentially impose land-use codes on state lands or otherwise impede state-sanctioned activities on state lands.

Legislation would expand the list of “limited mining operations” that can skip environmental and public review to include gold, rare-earth and other hard-rock mines.

The threat of billion-dollar class-action lawsuits bankrupting power companies has lawmakers considering a cap on claims.

With a handful of dissenting votes, a legislative panel has advanced a draft measure that proponents say merely provides the opportunity to discuss changing Wyoming statutes to enable temporary storage