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4 days ago | wyofile.com | Joshua Wolfson

The same group of abortion rights advocates whose legal challenges have stymied past attempts to stop or limit abortion in Wyoming is seeking to block part of another new law. That statute, which goes into effect July 1, codifies what is already a long-standing medical practice: that providers can legally prescribe U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for unapproved or off-label uses without fear of punishment from Wyoming licensing boards.

4 days ago | wyofile.com | Andrew Graham

On Tuesday afternoon, 13 horses started their run at a racetrack outside Valparaiso, Chile, hooves pounding the dirt on what in that hemisphere was a 52-degree winter day. Some 5,500 miles to the north, a WyoFile reporter making his first bet on a horse race sat within the cool interior of a former diner in Laramie, watching the horses run on television. He hit on a $10 bet on a horse named Viene Puelche, named after a warm Chilean wind.

1 week ago | wyofile.com | Katie Klingsporn

Wyoming lawmakers have launched the state’s 2025 school recalibration, an exhaustive and tedious assessment of public education funding mandated every five years. This time, however, they are doing so in the shadow of a district court ruling that the Wyoming Legislature violated the state’s constitution by underfunding public education and must amend that. The new ruling loomed large during the Legislature’s Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration’s two-day meeting in Casper this week.

1 week ago | wyofile.com | Andrew Graham

A wildfire burning in the Wyoming Range due west of Pinedale grew to more than 1,300 acres as of Wednesday afternoon, five days after a lightning strike ignited it. Though the fire is sizable for the time of year, a U.S. Forest Service spokesperson and the Wyoming State Forester told WyoFile the blaze wasn’t an early indicator of a difficult fire season.

1 week ago | wyofile.com | Katie Klingsporn

Wyoming’s new universal school voucher program spurred intense debate during the 2025 Legislature, and a major sticking point among lawmakers and education officials was a belief that it violates the state’s constitution. “It’s clear as day that this bill is unconstitutional,” Rep. Karlee Provenza, D-Laramie, said during House floor debate. “We as a state will clearly lose when we are inevitably sued.”Litigation seemed all but certain.