CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Dec. 22, 2022: Consistent with the direction in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming today released an environmental assessment analyzing 209 oil and gas parcels totaling approximately 250,950 acres for a proposed lease sale that would be held in June 2023. The release of this environmental assessment starts a 30-day public comment peri  more

F.E. WARREN AFB, Wyoming, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force F.E. Warren Air Force Base (90th Missile Wing) issued the following news: By 1st Lt. Emily Seaton, 20th Air Force The simulator the 582nd Helicopter Group uses to train their UH-1N pilots and flight engineers is now an award-winning system. The Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Mixed Reality Mission Rehearsal Trainer (MRT) System won the Outstanding Augmented/Mixed/Virtual/Expanded Reality Application for the medium to large business ca  more

SARATOGA, Wyoming, Dec. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland - issued the following news release: A preliminary land exchange proposal from Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments (OSLI), related to the West Fork Battle Creek Reservoir project, has been received by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Medicine Bow National Forest. The Forest Service will now conduct a fea  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that Wyoming received its first "Internet for All" grants for deploying high-speed Internet networks and developing digital skills training programs under the Biden-Harris Administration's Internet for All initiative. Wyoming is receiving $5,4  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- President Biden issued the following remarks in a briefing on Dec. 22, 2022, on severe winter weather: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Okay, this is going to be brief, folks. The storm -- extreme cold weather -- you can see it on the map the estimated areas where they're at the -- you know, as low as 50 degrees; where it's that dark red, it's below zero. You know, it's dangerous and threatening. This is really a very serious weather alert here. And it goes from Oklahoma all the w  more