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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says he hopes to meet with Wyoming lawmakers over the next year to try to resolve a fundamental disagreement over whether the state should be putting its extra cash into permanent savings or into the state's rainy day fund ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are considering conservation easements to protect more state land as the population increases. The issue came to the forefront on Tuesday when members from the Select Committee on Natural Resources met to discuss a draft of legislation for large easement projects and received public comment...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead is set to present his proposed budget to state lawmakers in Cheyenne. Mead is scheduled to address members of the Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committee on Monday morning. The committee plans to meet all week to consider budget issues...

ETHETE, Wyo. (AP) — Tribal and federal officials say a crackdown on crime over the past two years has succeeded in improving the quality of life on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Wyoming legislators met Tuesday in Ethete (EE'-thuh-tee), on the reservation to hear from state and federal law enforcement and other officials...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers will hear testimony about reducing crime on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Members of the Wyoming Legislature's Joint Judiciary Committee and Select Committee on Tribal Relations are meeting in Ethete (EE'-thuh-tee) on Tuesday to hear from state and federal law enforcement and other officials...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are examining high-cost portions of the state's Medicaid budget as they try to curb the growth of the entitlement program. Wyoming Department of Health officials briefed legislators Thursday on the first phase of a report on possible options for trimming Medicaid spending...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a bill that continues education reform efforts in Wyoming's public schools. Senate File 57 was approved on a 26-4 vote Monday. It now heads to the state House for consideration. ...

Lawmakers in Nevada are working on legislation that could someday lead to cars driving themselves on streets and highways in the state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relieved congressional bargainers say they've reached agreement on compromise legislation extending payroll tax cuts and benefits for the long-term unemployed through 2012, edging a white-hot political battle a major step closer to finally being resolved...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A bill is being proposed that would discontinue allowing four Wyoming statewide elected officials to hire their own legal counsel. The bill proposed by state Rep. Pete Illoway, of Cheyenne, would require the secretary of state, public instruction superintendent, treasurer and auditor to get their legal counsel through the state attorney general's office...