Senators

The members of the Wyoming House of Representatives and the Senate have finalized their leadership and committee assignments after party caucuses Saturday and Sunday, according to a news release from the Legislative Service Office.

DENVER (AP) — Senators from Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota are encouraging federal officials to use the timber industry to help thin forests prone to wildfires, like ones that raged across their states this summer. In a letter Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the senators said overgrown forests, drought, vast stretches of trees killed by beetles, and more people living in fire zo