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1 week ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Jen Sieve-Hicks
Early this season, Buffalo High School soccer coach Dick Edgcomb knew that this year’s team was something special. The team was loaded with talent and experience – it had the makings of a state championship team. “Early on in the year, the coaching staff, we said, you know, this is going to be a good team, but do we have the goaltending?” Edgcomb said.
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1 week ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Jackie Galli
As Wyoming expands its educational savings account (voucher) program, Johnson County School District No. 1 Superintendent Charles Auzqui said school districts face several key decisions. The biggest is whether they should register as an ESA provider and charge tuition to students whose families have received ESA funds to take classes in their district.
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1 week ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Andrew Graham
Nine parents of school-aged children and the Wyoming Education Association, which represents more than 6,000 of the state’s public school employees, filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of the state’s education savings account program instituted by the Wyoming Legislature.
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2 weeks ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | David Velazquez
CASPER — The denial to renew eight exploratory leases at the base of Casper Mountain means a project seeking to mine gravel on state-owned lands is dead. The Wyoming State Board of Land Commissioners — composed of Gov.
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3 weeks ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Mark Davis
POWELL — While tourism in the U.S. is dominated by domestic travel, an international travel and tourism organization is predicting travel to the U.S. for tourism in 2025 will fall almost $50 billion below 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Losses this year alone could be more than $12.5 billion over 2024 spending estimates.
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3 weeks ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Sarah Squires
LANDER — Wind River Job Corps in Riverton, the newest of the nation’s 126 campuses, would be celebrating its 10-year anniversary this fall. But funding for the entire U.S. Job Corps program is on the chopping block as part of a federal bill narrowly passed by the House and under consideration by the Senate, and on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Labor handed down an edict: Close up shop by June 30 as part of a “pause” on the program.
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3 weeks ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Austin Beck-Doss
RIVERTON — For first responders, long shifts, life- or-death decisions and potentially traumatic experiences are daily norms. While navigating the immediate threats of physical danger, something more insidious constantly looms: burnout. That’s where the Responder Alliance comes in.
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3 weeks ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Hannah Shields
Editor's Note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. CHEYENNE — It’s been nearly two and a half years since 11-year-old Paul Pine died by suicide at Carpenter Elementary School. Paul had a learning disability that set him academically behind his fellow classmates. He struggled to read, had behavioral health issues and repeated kindergarten, at his parents’ request.
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4 weeks ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Joseph Beaudet
SHERIDAN — Kindergarten through 12th grade teacher recruitment and retention is among the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Education Committee’s priority topics for its interim work. Wyoming Department of Education Chief of Staff Dicky Shanor said Wyoming has more than 15 subjects with a “critical shortage.” He explained a critical shortage occurs when 5% or more of the teachers in a subject area are teaching without a full Professional Teaching Standards Board license.
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1 month ago | 
buffalobulletin.com | Jen Sieve-Hicks
Games just do not get as close as the 3A State Soccer Championship game between Buffalo and Cody. The Bison and Broncs stayed in a 0-0 stalemate through 100 minutes of regulation play and two overtimes, and it still took six pairs of shots in penalty shootouts to decide a winner in Saturday’s contest. In the end, Buffalo continued its Cinderella run with a sudden death victory in PKs to knock off top-seeded Cody and win its first state championship since 2013.