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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Breaking Wyoming's sage grouse rules cost an oil and gas firm $20,000 and a stern lecture from Gov. Matt Mead in a Tuesday hearing before the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Ballard Petroleum Holdings LLC was f...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Aaron Stump walked into the Ramkota Hotel in Casper Tuesday morning looking for a job. A slim manila folder held copies of his resume. A single page showed the 46-year-old's life in boiler plate: a college degree, posts in v...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Marvin Nash once worked as a rodeo clown, galvanizing crowds in ill-fitting overalls and hiding in a barrel when the bulls charged. The performer with the Texas drawl spent his youth mucking stalls on ranches and years later c...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's bust hit schools and counties particularly hard. Losses came from fewer students filling chairs, fewer shoppers in local stores and fewer workers in oil and gas fields and coal mines. But often overlooked during a b...

Casper, Wyo. (AP) — On a recent morning, the Nichols Ranch mine was quietly leaching uranium from rock formations buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the Powder River Basin. A handful of employees slept in a trailer outside the plant a...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Once, he viewed the world from the top of a 70-foot oil derrick. Eagles would pass as he worked in the Wyoming wind. He would use his whole body to keep balance, attaching solid steel piping that weighed thousands of pounds. N...