Wyoming Casino News

New leadership for the Northern Arapaho Tribe's gambling enterprise say their goal is to get as much money back to the tribe as possible, a change in ...

Two Northern Arapaho leaders and two former casino managers have accused the tribe's new law firm of orchestrating a hostile takeover of tribal and gaming ...

Wyomingites hate being told what to do by people outside our state. We recoil at the idea of being lectured on our way of life from someone who's never set.

Northern Arapaho tribal leaders knew of — and approved — a secretive lobbying effort to kill legislative attempts to regulate gambling in the state, despite claims ...

Wyoming lawmakers on Friday nixed a proposed gaming commission despite the fact that more than 400 illegal machines are now operating in the state.

An unusually wet year is responsible for the biblical-seeming swarm of pallid-winged grasshoppers, according to entomologists.

It's been a summer of leadership turnover for the Northern Arapaho Tribe. In June, the tribe's Business Council voted 4-2 not to renew the contract of Jim.

If passed, the resolution would trigger a recall election of the tribe's business council Chairman Lee Spoonhunter.

Roughly one in every four Republicans in Wyoming comes from either Natrona or Laramie counties.

A lawsuit involving the Northern Arapaho Tribe's current and former law firms has become the latest public example of a bitter divide among tribal leadership.

THERMOPOLIS — Just three weeks ago, members of the Wyoming Legislature's Joint Committee of Travel, Recreation and Cultural Resources decided it was ...

The Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon has been without safe drinking water all summer, and some people have no running water at all.

A casino managed by the Northern Arapaho tribe gave thousands of dollars to a highly secretive organization trying to kill regulated gambling in Wyoming, ...

On rare occasions, Dad and I would get together for lunch. It was 2014, and I had just started a job at NPR. Dad was retired and lived 60 miles away. From.

A mysterious group with dubious ties to Wyoming has been lobbying state lawmakers in an apparent attempt to derail talks about regulating gambling in ...

RIVERTON — After a 3-3 vote by the Northern Arapaho Business Council, Wind River Hotel and Casino CEO Jim Conrad received a letter from NABC chairman ...

The Shoshone Rose Casino and Hotel in Lander is making a number of changes, including employee layoffs, amid financial problems, Eastern Shoshone ...

Northern Arapaho tribal officials on Tuesday named two new leaders of its gambling operations, including a citizen of the tribe and someone with years of ...

CHEYENNE (WNE) — WyoLotto has announced a new game coming to Wyoming this summer.

RIVERTON — If longtime Wind River Hotel and Casino CEO Jim Conrad does leave at the end of June, one of the biggest decisions his successor will have to ...

A state lawmaker and Northern Arapaho tribal member has been named the assistant CEO of the Wind River Hotel and Casino as its current leader's contract is ...

A law firm representing Wyoming Skills, LLC — a group of vendors who own and operate gaming equipment — plans to meet with newly appointed Attorney ...

Anticipation is growing along with the zeros in the Mega Millions lottery winnings. The prize hit $1.6 billion after no one won the jackpot in a drawing on.

Where the bison and the antelope now play on state land overlooking Kelly Warm Springs, slot machines and poker tables threaten to vie for real estate.

Former Basin clerk pleads 'no contest' to embezzlement. GREYBULL (WNE) — A former Basin town clerk/treasurer charged with embezzling funds from the ...

CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Lottery has shared another $1.4 million of its earnings with local counties, cities and towns across the state.

The Wyoming Lottery Corporation is defending itself against charges that it is not sending enough money to the state and is spending excessively on expenses ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska voters may decide next year whether to legalize casino gambling in a ballot measure that could tip the number of states that allow ...

A major decision by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday calling a 1992 law unconstitutional and making sports betting legal. States will regulate the change and ...

A jackalope mascot named Yolo reaches out to grab a star. “Just maybe,” the tagline reads. The Wyoming Lottery's yellow and azure-blue color scheme can be ...

The Wyoming Lottery Corporation transferred substantially less revenue back to the state in July than in past quarters. In April the lottery transferred a little more ...

The Mega Millions jackpot has hit “uncharted territory” with a grand prize of $1.6 billion up for grabs at Tuesday's drawing. There's a simple explanation for this: ...

By its nature, Wyoming often finds its economy at the mercy of acts far beyond its control and thousands of miles away.

The winning Mega Millions ticket was purchased with cash in South Carolina, one of nearly two dozen states that ban credit card purchases of tickets.

Wyoming State Capitol building reopens to a crowd of hundreds Wednesday July 10 in Cheyenne.

WyoLotto officials are still searching for the recent winner of a $2 million lottery prize bought from a Mills gas station.

Jane Goodall is a global icon, perhaps the most admired living environmentalist and legendary for her research with chimpanzees. Cynthia Moss is famous for ...

Gambling is becoming legal in more states and in different ways as of late. With online betting and the rising popularity of fantasy sports and sports betting, there ...

Ms. Rory Tendore of Fort Washakie, Wyoming, was selected as the FBI Denver Division's 2018 recipient for the Director's Community Leadership Award (DCLA).

Peter Alley of Bar Harbor, Maine won a $500000 prize from a scratch-off ticket he bought for $20 last month.

FARSON — A new smokehouse is coming to Sweetwater County. Sweet Water Smoke is scheduled to open May 4 at 5 Basco Ave. in Farson “as long as ...

UW students try their luck during a past Casino Night event at the Wyoming Union. This year's event is Saturday, Sept. 2, at 9 p.m. in the upper level of the ...

Titans kicker Ryan Succop sized up one effect of legal online sports betting in Tennessee: “We'll probably have more people watching games,” he said.

LARAMIE — Players, coaches and media members will convene at the Green Valley Ranch Resort in Henderson, Nevada, this week for Mountain West Media ...

A whopping 7000 people vied for the chance to hunt Wyoming grizzly bears for the first time in 44 years. Many entrants in the permit lottery said if they won, they ...

Wyoming is bound to its citizens to produce a balanced budget every year.

CHEYENNE — “When it comes to gaming, Wyoming is not the most progressive state.”

State lawmakers and the Wyoming Secretary of State's office are working on legislation to limit the influence of corporate money on state-level elections in ...

Wyoming football offered a scholarship to Daveon Hunter, a 5-foot-10, 200-pound running back from Aurora, Colorado, on June 21.

When the government shuts down, it can't carry through on its historic commitments to Native American tribes. The Wind River Reservation's tribes signed.

A strong first quarter for Wyoming's mining industry helped drive a rate of personal income growth of just over 2 percent over the last quarter of 2018.

University of Wyoming senior Jerayah Davis put the finishing touches on an impressive weekend at the Mountain West Outdoor Track & Field Championships on ...

After decades of resistance to sports gambling, team owners and state officials are laying the groundwork for it — with potentially huge implications.

The nonprofit MoFi helps leverage new market tax credits to fund rural community projects in low-income areas around the Rocky Mountain region, and now.

Quality of life is a dream here. But business might be better if the state could rein in some more capital.

Wyoming lawmakers will have only 20 days to work when they convene next year, but they could take up a number of daunting topics that they failed to resolve ...

This post has been updated with the new jackpot amount. The Powerball jackpot keeps growing, and so does the cut that would go to Uncle Sam if there is a ...

A federal judge on Monday ordered two men to repay $100000 and serve 20 months each in prison for operating an ATM fraud conspiracy in Wyoming.

It's my annual Taxes from A to Z series! This time, it's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) style. If you're wondering whether you can claim home office expenses or ...

They look like slot machines. Symbols spin around the screen like slot machines. And when everything lines up just right, they pay out $1,000-plus jackpots like ...

When it comes to protecting the grizzlies, how effective are protests like singing up for a hunting tag with no intention of using it?

The University of Wyoming's “The World Needs More Cowboys” campaign unveiled last summer won national awards, despite criticism from some school staff ...

A group of women motorcyclists rumbled down Second Street in Casper Tuesday during the Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo Parade.

An outdoor business owner from back East called Dave Glenn recently, explaining his hopes to relocate here.

In the next five years, Grand Teton National Park biologists may kill or remove more than 100 nonnative mountain goats that are quickly expanding and ...

WIND RIVER RESERVATION — Zombie faces stare at visitors from machines studded with flashing lights and glowing panels at a newly renovated casino on ...

Needing a solid showing at the season-ending Laramie River Rendezvous back in April, the University of Wyoming women's rodeo team delivered.

Wyoming's prison population was the third-fastest growing in the country at the end of 2017, according to a government report released last week.

Justin James is a productive mid-major player who grew into one of the most versatile players in college basketball over his four-year career at Wyoming.

There wasn't anything elaborate about Wyoming's first full-scale scrimmage Saturday. That's par for the course in the spring, particularly when the entire ...

The Supreme Court ruled in New Jersey, opening the doors for states to introduce legislation for legalized sports betting. Ryan Rodenberg checks in on where ...

A Rock Springs church is holding what it calls Wyoming's first statewide LGBTQ pride worship *service* Sunday.

RIVERTON — The Eastern Shoshone Business Council has nominated a liaison to Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon's office: Lee D. Tendore.

JACKSON (AP) — Cars and trucks are killing a lot of moose near an intersection in western Wyoming.

A Cheyenne-based businessman with diverse experience in sales, management, business analysis and negotiation has been chosen to lead a Wyoming ...

The first Powerball and MegaMillions tickets were sold in the state Sunday. The Wyoming Lottery Corporation – or WyoLotto - reported nearly $200,000 in sales ...

The Wyoming Supreme Court has agreed to review prosecutors' appeal in a murder case that a Natrona County judge dismissed on the basis of a new ...

Wyoming's oil and gas sector is still digesting *fresh* changes to the state's drilling regulations. But for Mark Watson, the proposed rule change was a long time ...

A trio of eighth graders from Burns, Wyoming ran a fishing line from a wall above their heads to the bottom of a chair leg Saturday in a Casper College.

POWELL — Cody Laboratories is expected to sell to a new owner by July.

CHEYENNE — Wyoming doesn't have enough skilled workers.

The landscape for high school football in Wyoming changed Tuesday with the official introduction of nine-man football.

The New Hampshire woman who wanted to keep her identity private but still claim her Powerball prize of nearly $560 million did retrieve her winnings.

Before you buy a Powerball ticket on a whim, consider this: Where you bought it makes a big difference if you win that jackpot.

Wyoming wind is relentless, and anyone who lives in the state knows that the perpetual irritant that makes sagebrush shiver and wind socks live horizontal is ...

CHEYENNE (AP) — People who collect antlers and horns shed by big-game animals could have to comply with new rules under a measure close to passing the ...

LARAMIE — Wyoming's men's basketball program officially put the finishing touches on its 2019 recruiting class Thursday.

Up to 10 inches of snow could hit Casper today, with Casper Mountain seeing as many as 24 inches, according to a winter storm warning issued Tuesday ...

PINEDALE (WNE) — Almost 77000 people have signed online petitions at Care2.org with another 308000 at change.org against the legality of “coyote ...

DENVER (AP) — Firefighters from Colorado and Wyoming will help battle wildfires burning in Canada.

JACKSON — Lisa Robertson says she was just curious what would happen two years ago when she put in applications to become the sole person permitted to ...

A familiar refrain preludes nearly every Cole Reiner ride regardless of where in North America the chute that encloses him on that particular night is located.

Gov. Mark Gordon has blocked Wyoming lawmakers from hiring a private attorney to sue Washington state and its Gov. Jay Inslee over a coal port terminal.

Officers found a person shot in a central Casper home early Tuesday morning, police said in a statement.

CASPER—Bill Dean Farleigh passed away on July 6, 2019, at Central Wyoming Hospice after a long illness. He was 86 years old. Bill was born on August 15, ...

Fremont County Representative Jim Allen lost against Northern Arapaho member Andrea Clifford by 60 votes. Clifford said she worked dawn to dusk to meet.

LAS VEGAS — Four days earlier, it was Carlton Bragg. On Wednesday, it was Vance Jackson.

LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees will ask the state to provide $49.6 million for a renovation of War Memorial Stadium's west side stands ...

Historical horse racing machines will remain shut down in Wyoming for at least weeks, and more likely a few months. Since the machines were legalized in.

CHEYENNE — Wyoming's efforts to expand broadband internet access across the state go beyond making sure people can binge watch their favorite TV show ...