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PNS Daily Newscast - January 17, 2019
Speaker Pelosi sends a message to Trump – No State of the Union in Congress while shutdown continues. Also on the Thursday rundown: federal employees in Michigan to rally against the shutdown. Plus a Green New Deal in New York raises the bar for clean energy.
Public News Service - WY: Cultural Resources
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – In preparation for a vote this week on a proposed grizzly bear hunting season, tribal nations from across Wyoming, seven other states and two Canadian provinces have sent letters to Wyoming Game and Fish Commission officials opposing the move. Herb Welsh, a spokesman for the
CASPER, Wyo. – A new online tool launched by AARP allows anyone to see how their community stacks up against others in Wyoming and across the nation on its "livability" score. The index is available online at www.aarp.org/livabilityindex, and when you enter your location, the site crunches a l
JACKSON, Wy. - Yellowstone National Park hosted a record number of visits last year and 2016 is set to be even busier. Thanks to low gas prices and Wyoming's marketing efforts, the park saw more than 4 million visits in 2015, up over 16 percent from the previous year. Yellowstone Superintendent Da
WASHINGTON D.C. - A replacement for the Land and Water Conservation Fund is being debated today at a hearing in Washington, D.C., before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. The proposed Protecting America's Recreation and Conservation Act (PARC) still would use royalties from oil and ga
LARAMIE, Wyo. - Two can be too many. Four conservation groups have filed a legal challenge against a plan for a couple of exploratory wells in the Desolation Road area of Adobe Town, in the Red Desert region near the Colorado line, on the grounds that the area is in the heart of a citizens' proposed
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Cheyenne's celebration of Frontier Days this weekend includes something extra to cheer about. The city is featured today (Friday) as one of the top ten most livable cities in America. AARP The Magazine looked at a combination of affordability and quality of life in choosing commun
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The winner of this year's AARP National Spelling Bee in Cheyenne didn't monkey around when it came to studying or winning. Tony Johnson of LaGrange, Georgia, took home the top prize of $5,000 by correctly spelling the name of a South American monkey. His study method? Systematically
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management has reversed course on five oil and gas leases auctioned a year ago in the Red Desert's Adobe Town. Five leases have been pulled, totaling about 5,400 The leases had been protested by the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (BCA) and The Wilderness Soci
