Wyoming Casino News

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight states have legalized gambling and many others have proposed legislation, but the ways in which people can gamble in each state are different.

CHEYENNE (WNE) — Court proceedings are now on hold for a man charged with first-degree murder after his attorney requested a mental competency ...

Lottery gaming vendor INTRALOT has hailed a significant milestone achieved by its partner the Wyoming Lottery Corporation which surpassed $5.4m in the total ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

CHEYENNE (AP) — Companies operating video slot machines in Wyoming bars are challenging the attorney general's opinion that the games constitute illegal ...

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

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

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: ...

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

CHEYENNE — Wyoming gamblers needn't expect any big changes in gaming laws next year as the Legislature makes another stab at setting up a state gaming ...

JACKSON (AP) — High housing costs in Jackson have the commission that oversees the Wyoming Game and Fish Department considering moving its ...

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 ...

The Wyoming attorney general's formal opinion about electronic gambling devices was released last week — now the city of Casper is holding a public meeting ...

CHEYENNE — It appears that a third time wasn't a charm for a bill to create a state gaming commission.

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 ...

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 ...

Authorities canceled the Amber Alert for 12-year-old Wyoming boy Zane Leo Armour. The alert had been issued Tuesday morning.

Americans spend about $261 in casinos and on lottery tickets. Nevadans spend the most, $5000 per adult. Rhode Island leads in lottery spending.

CHEYENNE (WNE) — Attorney General Peter Michael declared some video "skill games" illegal under Wyoming gambling laws Tuesday.

On the heels of bonuses and pay raises, the Lottery Corporation transferred much less revenue to the state in July than past quarters.

Wyoming's largest coal mines are likely to make more cuts to production in 2019, financial reports show.

LARAMIE — Wyoming knows what it has in Logan Wilson and Cassh Maluia at linebacker. But what about what's behind both multi-year starters at the position?

The Wyoming Attorney General's office has asked the state's highest court to review a Natrona County judge's dismissal of a first-degree murder case tied to ...

In September, companies spent a jaw-dropping $1 billion at a lease sale in New Mexico for potential oil and gas development along the state's eastern border, ...

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

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

Wyoming basketball signee Kenny Foster was named Colorado's Gatorade Player of the Year over the weekend.

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

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt — who is being investigated for potential conflicts of interest with the oil and gas industry, department officials confirmed ...

LAS VEGAS — A day after media members voted Justin James as a first-team all-Mountain West performer, Wyoming's senior guard received more recognition ...

LARAMIE — Trey Smith's introduction to 7220 feet above sea level was pretty typical.

Kelly Walsh junior Corin Carruth announced her commitment to play volleyball at the University of Wyoming on Twitter on Thursday night.

The Wyoming Attorney General's Office on Friday asked the state's highest court to deny Tony Cercy's request for release on bond pending his appeal.

A number of Jackson Hole animal lovers are trying to rally like-minded folks to apply for grizzly bear hunting tags with no intention of shooting the big bruins.

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

LARAMIE -- The offseason is a time for change for college football rosters nationwide.

A Wyoming entrepreneur is hoping to add a bar and grill to his new off-track betting establishment in Casper.

Every season is recruiting season, so be sure to bookmark the Casper Star-Tribune and Pokes Authority's Wyoming football recruiting tracker. We have all you ...

Eight states have abolished the death penalty in the past two decades. Capital punishment opponents in Wyoming have tried many times to follow suit, with a ...

A man died in an industrial accident Thursday morning, the Natrona County Sheriff's Office said the same day.

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

Sparked by a permitting war among Wyoming's oil and gas producers, mineral owners in eastern Wyoming say they are banding together in defense, pushing ...

Several weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Worland resident Amanda Weaver — a Democrat — decided to go to her first state party meeting.

The University of Wyoming's board of trustees will appoint an acting president after Laurie Nichols' contract expires June 30 to fill the position while the board ...

Coal giant Peabody Energy has reduced the amount of coal it plans to produce from Wyoming's North Antelope Rochelle mining complex this year by 10 million ...

A doctor is set to go to trial this week on charges alleging he operated a criminal drug conspiracy out of his Casper office, ultimately resulting in the overdose ...

LARAMIE — A former University of Wyoming basketball player Tuesday was acquitted of all charges stemming from an alleged altercation at a downtown ...

Wyoming would again study what Medicaid expansion would mean — and cost — in the Equality State under a provision backed by Natrona County legislators ...

Dozens of antelope wandered off the northeast prairie and into Moorcroft in the last few weeks looking for refuge from harsh weather. About 15 were then hit by ...

One-hundred and thirty Wyoming Army National Guardsmen will fly to Texas ahead of a nine-month deployment to the Middle East, with Gov. Mark Gordon ...

CHEYENNE (AP) — Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Scott Talbott says 2018 was a year especially notable for the partnerships between his ...

LARAMIE -- There are times he contemplates cutting it.

Wyoming snapped its longest losing streak of the season Wednesday and made sure its trying season wouldn't end in the Mountain West cellar in the process.

Wyoming got a commitment from Javier Turner, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound forward from Omaha, Nebraska, on April 24.

CHEYENNE (AP) — The University of Wyoming may become involved in a major land deal in southeast Wyoming.

With a $33 billion cash and stock deal, Chevron's planned acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum will create a new super major oil firm, with uncertain impacts in ...

Wyoming Treasurer Curt Meier threatened employees in the state's Human Resources Division last month, workers there told a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper ...

During the most intense moments of matches, against some of the toughest competition, Jace Palmer could still hear coach Travis Peak telling him to “be Jace ...

A group of faculty and students took turns Thursday praising departing UW President Laurie Nichols and demanding transparency from the board of trustees that ...

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.

The rule of thumb in Wyoming is that about 70 percent of the state's income is derived from minerals. That money flows from severance taxes on crude oil, ...

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.

LARAMIE -- The Gold picked up a 14-9 victory over the Brown in Wyoming's spring game, but nobody for the Cowboys won more than Jesse Hooper on ...

The FCC launched an investigation of telecom giant CenturyLink in the wake of a nationwide outage that prevented some customers from being able to dial 911.

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

dLARAMIE — Tom Burman knew it was coming, though he didn't have to like it.

Neither of the leading candidates in Wyoming's quarterback competition did much to separate himself in the first game-like environment for the Cowboys this ...

The Virginia businessman who'd planned to purchase and operate a troubled coal mine in western Wyoming has backed out after a failure to secure bonding ...

The amount of electricity coming from coal this summer will likely fall as natural gas and renewable power creep into coal's territory, according to the Energy ...

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.

CHEYENNE – A bill sponsored by one of Casper's representatives to create a regulated industrial hemp industry in Wyoming is headed to Gov. Mark Gordon's ...

Prosecutors this week charged a Casper man with eight felonies alleging he violently raped two people, one of whom is a 17-year-old girl.

A family of five — including 2-year-old twins and a newborn infant — were rescued unhurt Monday after the airplane they were traveling in ran out of fuel and ...

Kaycee Cook, the substitute teacher who was dismissed from a Cheyenne middle school by the then principal after reporting racist and anti-gay flyers, has been ...

Snow and strong winds caused hazardous travel conditions throughout much of Wyoming on Tuesday.

LARAMIE — Every spring brings with it the emergence of some unfamiliar names.

As Wyoming's primary industry — energy — cycles between times of boom and bust, the state's other main economic driver continues its steady, if unassuming ...

CHEYENNE (WNE) — Union Pacific announced its schedule for steam operations last week, including plans for the long-awaited Big Boy 4014.

A Wyoming man who was being held in a private Mississippi prison died of an apparent suicide this weekend, a Wyoming Department of Corrections official said ...

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 ...

The defense attorney for a Casper doctor accused of operating a broad-ranging drug conspiracy told jurors Monday that his client was misled by his patients and ...

The man arrested on suspicion of shooting a woman at a central Casper home early Tuesday is her adult son, police said Wednesday.

The 2018 Wyoming High School All-State and All-Conference Volleyball teams were announced on Tuesday by the Wyoming Coaches Association, featuring ...

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 ...

EOG Resources is one of the oil and gas firms charting the course for Wyoming oil plays today, particularly in the development of the Powder River Basin in ...

Meeting for the first time this year, the Wyoming Business Council's Board of Directors on Thursday had a full slate of priorities to attend to. New leaders had to ...

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 ...

A bill to protect injured Wyoming workers from high air ambulance costs could be the first step in a broader effort by lawmakers to partially shield the entire state ...

The state's highest court on Tuesday overturned a lower court and ruled a western Wyoming airport board must follow the state's public records law.

An owner of the Buckhorn Bar, a Laramie establishment for more than 100 years, died in a car crash Saturday north of Medicine Bow.

LARAMIE -- Craig Bohl is aware of Wyoming's history.