WyoFile

20 hours ago | wyofile.com | Andrew Graham

In a state where the vast majority of residents are white, the truck stops along Wyoming’s 400 miles of Interstate 80 stand out as racial and linguistic melting pots. Among the idling semi-trucks and in the lounge areas where people wait their turn at a shower, drivers speak to each other or into phones in Russian, Spanish, Nepali, Hindi and more.

2 days ago | wyofile.com | Klark Byrd

Natrona County commissioners advanced this week a new county-wide policy aimed at regulating heavy truck traffic on designated residential roads, including Coates Road, which would provide access to a contested gravel pit on Casper Mountain. Gregg Werger, a Coates Road resident and vocal opponent of Prism Logistics’ attempt to build a nearby gravel pit, reminded commissioners there will be a State Board of Land Commissioners meeting Thursday to consider Prism’s lease renewal applications.

4 days ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

“Roosters crow, hens deliver,” five candidates sing in the musical Petticoat Rules as they launch their 1921 campaign in Jackson to become the country’s first all-woman council. The revival of the musical, first staged 25 years ago, tells the story of that famous group of stalwarts that won two terms and helped turn a frontier town into a livable community. Under the rule of Mayor Grace Miller, who beat her incumbent husband in the election, streets wouldn’t turn into rivers during a rainstorm.

4 days ago | wyofile.com | Maggie Mullen |Tennessee Watson

The Trump administration announced Monday it’s investigating the University of Wyoming for alleged Title IX violations stemming from members of a campus sorority voting to admit a transgender woman in 2022, despite the school’s insistence that it doesn’t have a say in the membership of the private organization. Critics of the admission of Artemis Langford have, until now, focused their efforts on the sorority itself: Kappa Kappa Gamma.

5 days ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

A water protection group in Jackson Hole removed the last challenge to a temporary glamping operation on state land near Teton Village on Thursday. Protect Our Water Jackson Hole filed papers with the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council withdrawing its appeal of a controversial sewage system permit.