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Anna Gibson grew up running in the Tetons and just made her mark on the biggest stage in the sport: the World Mountain a...
10/10/2025

Anna Gibson grew up running in the Tetons and just made her mark on the biggest stage in the sport: the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Spain.

Gibson, 26, took home bronze for Team USA in the Uphill 6K race during her debut appearance at the competition. She also helped the U.S. women’s team win a silver medal in the Classic 14K race, finishing 13th in a field of more than a hundred athletes.

And she’s got a lot more miles to run and mountains to explore, with plans to dip her toes into the world of skimo racing this winter, too.

Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann chatted with Gibson before she headed to Italy for her last race of the season at the finale of the Golden Trail World Series.

Photo credit: Gracie Hinz

Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann chatted with Gibson before she headed to Italy for her last race of the season at the finale of the Golden...

U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has asked Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel to release a trove o...
10/10/2025

U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has asked Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel to release a trove of data, transcripts and names relating to an FBI investigation into her phone records that took place in 2023.

In a letter to Patel, Lummis requested a wide array of information, including “All FBI and [Department of Justice] DOJ records that identify which members of the Biden Administration authorized or approved the surveillance of my phone records.”

Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee released a document revealing the FBI pulled phone records and data related to “Election Law Matters” from nine elected officials between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021. The FBI labeled the operation Arctic Frost.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis called the FBI’s 2023 investigation into her phone records and data the “most serious infringements on the separation of powers...

10/10/2025

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Watchdog groups are raising flags over how the federal government is handling two major coal lease sales in Montana and ...
10/10/2025

Watchdog groups are raising flags over how the federal government is handling two major coal lease sales in Montana and Wyoming. The latter was postponed last minute.

About 50 years ago, the federal coal program was considered “rife with waste, fraud and abuse,” according to Sara Kendall, Western Organization of Resource Councils program director.

Kendall said taxpayers and local governments fought to get mining companies to pay a fair amount for public minerals.

And it worked.

Stricter federal rules came in 1976 and in following years, requiring companies to pay at least fair market value for coal. Kendall said it’s determined by the Department of the Interior’s Appraisal and Valuation Services, which is considered an apolitical government agency.

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Watchdog groups are raising flags over how the federal government is handling two major coal lease sales in our region, one of which was postponed last minute.

October is National Farm to School Month. In the Cowboy State, a big part of that movement is the Farm to School program...
10/09/2025

October is National Farm to School Month. In the Cowboy State, a big part of that movement is the Farm to School program, which gets local food, like beef, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet corn and green beans, on students’ plates in the majority of school districts around Wyoming.

The state’s program is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Patrick Leahy Farm to School Program and is run by the Wyoming Department of Education. Oct. 8 is the second annual Farm to School Day in Wyoming, with schools around the state celebrating the day with specially-designed aprons and stickers.

Farm to School has grown significantly in the last few years. In 2024, Wyoming beat out seven other states to win the Mountain Plains Region Crunch Off, a competition for serving the most locally grown food bites per capita in lunchrooms.

According to a press release from the Wyoming Department of Education, Wyoming jumped from under 2,000 “crunches” in 2023 to nearly 40,000 the next year – a 2,000% increase that bumped previous champion Nebraska off the podium.

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The program’s current funding will expire next year, but the state plans to apply to a more selective version of the grant for 2026.

Campbell County has agreed to pay $700,000 to Terri Lesley, its former library director, according to a settlement agree...
10/09/2025

Campbell County has agreed to pay $700,000 to Terri Lesley, its former library director, according to a settlement agreement shared with Wyoming Public Radio.

Lesley alleged in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that the county removed her for defending LGBTQ+ materials. The county denied her allegations.

"It's been a really long journey," Lesley said. "It's been hard, very hard, to go through, and it just feels glorious to be past it and to have what I feel is the right resolution."

Lesley had worked in the Campbell County Public Library System for almost 30 years, serving as its executive director for more than a decade. She became the target of angry local activists for recognizing Pride Month in a 2021 social media post and later refusing to remove books about LGBTQ+ youth from the children's section.

"I just wanted to do what any librarian would do in my shoes and just protect the access," Lesley said. "But as things went along, it got tougher and tougher. We had two years of conflict on this topic."

Photo credit: Campbell County Library

The long-time library director had sued local government officials for her 2023 termination, alleging they violated her free speech rights by...

Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis was among a small group of lawmakers whose phone records from the week of Jan. 6, 2021 were ...
10/09/2025

Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis was among a small group of lawmakers whose phone records from the week of Jan. 6, 2021 were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to information released by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A copy of an FBI document shared by the committee shows that in 2023, the FBI pulled phone records and data related to “Election Law Matters” from nine elected officials between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021. “That data shows when and to whom a call is made, as well as the duration and general location data of the call. The data does not include the content of the call,” the committee’s release said.

The FBI document notes a redacted special agent “conducted preliminary toll analysis on limited tolls records associated with the following US Senators.”

That group included Lummis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).

Lummis was not made available for an interview by publication. Her office shared a press release issued Monday after the investigation was disclosed.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation reviewed senators’ and a representative’s phone calls made during the week of January 6, 2021.

The University of Wyoming (UW) Symphony Orchestra’s opening night on Thursday, Oct. 9, will feature a Brazilian classica...
10/09/2025

The University of Wyoming (UW) Symphony Orchestra’s opening night on Thursday, Oct. 9, will feature a Brazilian classical guitarist.

Eduardo Meirinhos is a professor at the Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas at the Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil where he teaches guitar, guitar literature and chamber music. He’s an expert on the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Meirinhos met UW Symphony Orchestra Director Michael Griffith when Griffith was guest conducting in Brazil.

“ I remember we talked about Villa-Lobos” said Meirinhos. “I worked all my master's degree and doctoral degree working with the music of Villa-Lobos. That was when Michael told me, ‘Okay, you should get together sometime in Wyoming to play the Villa-Lobos concerto.”

Griffith said he wanted Wyomingites to experience classical guitar.

“Many people in our audience might think that the guitar is a rock and roll instrument, and actually it goes back hundreds and hundreds of years as a classical instrument. Writing for a guitar with orchestra in a perfect classical setting is not all that unusual,” said Griffith.

Photo credit: UW Symphony Orchestra

Opening night on Thursday will feature music from the New World, including classical guitarist Eduard Mernhos. It is the first night of the 2025-26 season.

10/09/2025

McClelland Barclay #534: Charles William Burdick Family Papers

McClelland Barclay, or “Mac” as he preferred to be called, was born in Missouri in 1891. He developed an interest in art and design as a young man.

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Wyoming Public Radio is a commercial-free station licensed to the University of Wyoming. Wyoming Public Media programming is primarily news, podcasts, classical and contemporary music. We also air jazz, folk, bluegrass, and unique entertainment programs. We broadcast to over 80% Wyoming. Wyoming Public Radio is the state's only member of National Public Radio.

Wyoming Public Media also administers Classical Wyoming, Jazz Wyoming, and Wyoming Sounds streams of all three channels.