Hanna Merzbach

Bend, Jackson, Portland, Santa Cruz

Reporter at Wyoming Public Radio

Reporter #MtnWestNews/@WYPublicRadio I Past: @891KHOL

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Natrona County court temporarily blocks two Wyoming abortion laws

2 days ago | 891khol.org | Hanna Merzbach

Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). Procedural and medication abortions will be accessible in Wyoming again. That’s because retired Laramie County District Judge Thomas T.C. Campbell temporarily blocked two new abortion laws on April 21, delivering a win for abortion advocates.
Wyoming Supreme Court hears arguments on abortion bans

6 days ago | 891khol.org | Hanna Merzbach

by | Apr 18, 2025 | Courts, Women's Health Make our newscast part of your daily listening routine. Subscribe on Spotify (or wherever you listen to podcasts). About 100 people filled the Wyoming Supreme Courtroom on April 16, as justices heard arguments about whether the state’s two near-total abortion bans are constitutional.
Wyoming Supreme Court will decide whether abortion will remain legal

1 week ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Hanna Merzbach

About 100 people filled the Wyoming Supreme Courtroom on April 16, as justices heard arguments about whether the state’s two near-total abortion bans are constitutional. The five-member court has until mid-August to make a decision, but it was a big day for many who have been waiting for the justices to consider the case for nearly three years. “ I'm relieved it's over, but it's certainly still up in the air,” said plaintiff Giovannina Anthony, a Jackson-based OB-GYN.
Feds won’t analyze total impact of 3,224 oil and gas leases in our region

1 week ago | 891khol.org | Hanna Merzbach

The Bureau of Land Management will no longer prepare a report tallying the environmental impacts of thousands of oil and gas leases across our region. That includes leases in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and the Dakotas. Environmentalists and the petroleum industry are divided over the move.
Feds won’t analyze total impact of 3,224 oil and gas leases in our region

1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Hanna Merzbach

The Bureau of Land Management will no longer prepare a report tallying the environmental impacts of thousands of oil and gas leases across our region. That includes leases in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and the Dakotas. Environmentalists and the petroleum industry are divided over the move.
Wyoming, Idaho and Montana groups want to end homelessness for people released from prisons

1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Hanna Merzbach

A new federal effort aims to end homelessness among people released from prisons. Communities in Wyoming and Idaho, and a tribe in Montana, are part of the initiative. One team is in Wyoming’s Natrona County. It’s the top destination for parolees in the state since there’s lots of temporary housing and re-entry services there.
Natrona County court hears abortion case, but doesn’t rule from the bench

2 weeks ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Hanna Merzbach

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify that Thomas T.C. Campbell is a retired judge. Natrona County assigned him the case. A judge in Natrona County heard a case on April 8 attempting to block two new state abortion laws. One has prevented the state’s only procedural abortion clinic in Casper from ending pregnancies, forcing about 100 patients to seek care elsewhere. Another law requires women to get transvaginal ultrasounds two days before taking abortion pills.
Logging could increase by 25% on a large swath of Mountain West forests

2 weeks ago | knpr.org | Hanna Merzbach

The Trump administration is opening up almost 113 million acres of land to logging. That’s nearly 60% of our nation’s forests, and they’re mostly in our region. On a map of the land now open to logging, a sea of blue dots covers western Wyoming, northern Idaho and central Colorado. In those places, the U.S. Forest Service has been charged with streamlining permitting and bypassing environmental analyses to increase timber production by 25%.
Natrona County judge hears abortion case, but doesn’t rule from the bench

2 weeks ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Hanna Merzbach

A judge in Natrona County heard a case on April 8 attempting to block two new state abortion laws. One has prevented the state’s only procedural abortion clinic in Casper from ending pregnancies, forcing about 100 patients to seek care elsewhere. Another law requires women to get transvaginal ultrasounds two days before taking abortion pills.
The Mountain West could provide important habitat to monarch butterflies, experts say

3 weeks ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Hanna Merzbach

North America’s rapidly declining population of monarch butterflies could have an important habitat in the Mountain West, according to experts. This comes as federal officials consider listing the recognizable insects under the Endangered Species Act. Every spring, the orange-and black-winged butterflies flutter north from Mexico. The Rocky Mountains serve as a natural barrier between their two main migration routes.