News Briefs

WILSON, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney is telling Republican donors that GOP candidate Mitt Romney is the "only man" who can make the right foreign policy decisions for the country. Cheney yesterday was helping raise more than $4 million at events in Wyoming for Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Spotters are on the lookout for new wildfires after thunderstorms yesterday unleashed lightning on parts of western and central Wyoming. The Wyoming State Forestry Division says firefighters quickly attacked new fires ignited throughout the state while crews improved containment on two major blazes...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Red-flag warnings for warm, dry conditions have returned for much of central and western Wyoming after rain and cooler weather over the weekend allowed crews to gain the upper hand against wildfires burning in the state...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Firefighters say it's unlikely that Wyoming's largest wildfire will be fully contained until fall or winter. Rain and cooler temperatures are helping firefighters, but officials caution that the fire season is still young and warm, drier weather is returning this week...

NEWCASTLE, Wyo. (AP) — Fire officials say the nearly 17-square-mile Squirrel Creek Fire about 30 miles southwest of Laramie was human-caused. Crews hope to have the flames fully surrounded tomorrow night. Fifteen homes were evacuated Wednesday because the fire grew to the southeast in beetle-killed timber...

NEWCASTLE, Wyo. (AP) — Help is arriving to bolster ranks battling a growing wildfire near Newcastle. Officials say the Oil Creek fire scorched nearly 91 square miles and was about 40 percent contained last night. More than 500 firefighters are on the ground there, helped by 11 bulldozers, six water tenders and dozens of other vehicles...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — More firefighting resources have been requested as crews struggle to contain a wildfire that has blackened 36 square miles of western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. Fire officials say an undetermined number of campers in the area were forced to flee, and about 170 square miles of the forest have been closed off...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As one major wildfire in Wyoming dies down others have ignited elsewhere in the state. Fire managers at the Russell's Camp fire in the Medicine Bow National Forest have reassigned helicopters and crews to fires elsewhere after gaining 60 percent containment...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The first major wildfire of the season in western Wyoming has grown from 300 acres to 2,000 as crews battle to gain control of the flames amid 45 mph wind gusts. The fire burning heavy and down timber in the Bridger-Teton National Forest is located about 30 miles northwest of LaBarge...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A legislative panel meeting this week will consider a proposal that would require ATMs in the state to give customers the option of donating to state parks and historic sites. Republican state Sen. Bruce Burns, of Sheridan, says he came up with the idea as an "out-of-the-box way" to deal with possible budget cuts that the state faces...