Budget Cuts

Modernization and better customer service are behind the closing of 259 U.S. Department of Agriculture offices and lab facilities across the country including two in Wyoming. The consolidations come as the USDA budget gets a 3 billion dollar slashing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts, marking a turning point in U.S. security policy after a decade of war...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Top Wyoming lawmakers are directing state agencies to brace for possible budget cuts. Republican Sen. Phil Nicholas, of Laramie, and Republican Rep. Rosie Berger, of Big Horn, are co-chairmen of the Joint Appropriations Committee...

Responding to requests from a legislative committee and Gov. Matt Mead, the University of Wyoming has started working on three possible budget-cutting scenarios.

Federal budget cuts to Homeland Security Agencies across the country means about 1.5 million less for Wyoming next year. Listen here,

Letters mailed in Rapid City, South Dakota would have to take a longer trip under one cost-cutting proposal being considered by the U. S. Postal Service. The agency is considering closing the city's mail-processing and distribution facility and moving those operations to Casper under the plan, the Casper Star-Tribune reports that a letter mailed in Rapid City, or some other towns in western South