Gov. Matt Mead

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead is urging Wyoming residents and visitors to take extra care in the outdoors because of the extreme fire danger. Mead notes there are fire bans on all state lands. In addition, 12 of the state's 23 counties have instituted their own fire bans so far...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming National Guard helicopter is being sent to Colorado to help fight a wildfire there. Gov. Matt Mead's office says the state of Colorado asked for a Wyoming Guard Black Hawk helicopter and its four crew members to help in the fight against a fire west of Fort Collins...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead told an audience in China this week that Wyoming is eager to develop new ways to use its natural resources. Mead and other officials from Wyoming are in China for the 2012 International Advanced Coal Technologies Conference...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead and other state officials are traveling to China this week for a conference on advanced coal technologies. First Lady Carol Mead and the Mead's two children are traveling with the governor at their own expense...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead said he plans to review state agency proposals for how to trim their budgets by 8 percent in the fiscal year that begins in July of next year. Falling natural gas prices recently prompted Mead to direct state government agencies to double the 4-percent cuts that the Wyoming Legislature had demanded...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Gov. Dave Freudenthal  will chair a task force appointed by Gov. Matt Mead to help plan a new engineering college building at the University of Wyoming. Freudenthal is a distinguished visiting professor in the UW College of Law...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says he and state lawmakers are watching slack natural gas prices with concern as they consider how to craft the state budget for the coming two-year funding cycle. Mead in December proposed a $3...

There was a capacity crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss a possible health exchange Tuesday evening in Evansville.

Gov. Matt Mead is proposing cuts to the state budget proposal he submitted to state legislators in December. Mead wrote to members of the Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee on Monday calling for cuts, including axing proposed pay raises for state employees and for workers at the University of Wyoming...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is set to release details of his budget proposal for the coming two-year state funding cycle. Mead has set a press conference in Cheyenne for Thursday afternoon to discuss his budget proposal...