Jordan Jackson had big plans. At 25, he was living in Cody and working as a technician at Bear Co. Tire. He’d talked about rejoining his heavy metal band and maybe even moving to Billings to be with his new girlfriend.

WASHINGTON — Newcastle High School science teacher Zach Beam participated in a ceremony at the White House on Monday honoring 2023 national and state teachers of the year, as the country’s public schools have been thrust to the center of ongoing culture war debates over LGBTQ rights and gun violence.

CHEYENNE, Wyo.—As the Biden Administration announced that it will devote more resources to counteracting the flow of illicit fentanyl into American communities, Wyoming law enforcement is grappling with a record number of fentanyl seizures throughout the state with a new, even more potent variant containing an animal tranquilizer having been recently detected.

NORTHEAST, Wyo.—Multiple state and federal law enforcement agencies are sounding the alarm as illicit opioids and other drugs laced with lethal fentanyl continue to pour into Wyoming communities as overdose deaths soar.

NORTHEAST, Wyo.– It smelled like death.

That was his first thought when he realized someone had laced his methamphetamine with illicit fentanyl. The former drug dealer had been smoking it with a friend when he had the heart-stopping realization that he’d just ingested fentanyl. It immediately made him vomit, and it was the first time anyone had tampered with his drugs.