Western Wyoming

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) — Most public lands in Western Wyoming will be closed to the gathering of shed horns and antlers from January first through April 2013. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is reminding the public of the ban on collecting sheds on the lands west of the Continental Divide...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The search for a small plane missing in western Wyoming is now in its fourth day. The Sublette County Sheriff's Office says 63-year-old pilot Myles McGinnis of LaBarge, Wyo., was the only occupant of the Cessna 182 that left Stevensville, Mont...

PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — The search continues for a small plane with only the pilot aboard that's been missing since Saturday in rugged terrain in western Wyoming. The Cessna 182 left Stevensville, Mont., Saturday and had been due in Pinedale that afternoon but didn't arrive...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Black bear hunting in most of the Wyoming and Salt River Ranges has closed for the fall season. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced that hunters have killed their quota of bears in many hunting units in the area...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Heavy snow in western Wyoming is providing fresh powder for the state's premier ski resort area with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort recording 20 inches in as many hours. But it's also prompting avalanche warnings for the surrounding mountains where up to 46 inches has fallen with more expected before the storm subsides Friday morning...

Heavy snow in western Wyoming is providing fresh powder for the state's premier ski resort area. But it's also prompting avalanche warnings for the surrounding mountains.   Winter storm warnings are posted for western Wyoming until 5 a.m. F...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead with a proposed regulatory designation that could increase pressure on the gas industry to limit emissions that have led to severe wintertime ozone pollution in western Wyoming...

PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — A fire and explosion has occurred at a compressor facility in the Jonah natural gas field in western Wyoming. Stephen Smith of the Sublette County Sheriff's Office says the fire was first reported at 12:07 p.m. Tuesday, followed shortly after by reports of an explosion and flames 100 feet high...