Police apprehended a student who reportedly brought a gun to Natrona County High School Friday afternoon.

The high school received a report around 12:15 p.m. from a student that another student had a gun in their possession, according to a Facebook post from Natrona County School District.

For Emily Tutt, any amount of student loan forgiveness is a relief.

Tutt, 28, is completing her medical residency at Wyoming Family Practice in Casper and owes about $180,000 in student loan debt for her medical education at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth.

Certain experiences only happen to rural schoolteachers.

When Brooke Johnson, 35, taught at Slack Elementary, a one-room schoolhouse in Parkman, near Ranchester, a goat who lived next door often stood on the school’s porch and peered through the window, waiting for recess when the children would come out and play. Other times, Johnson and her students chased neighborhood cattle off the playground and back into their pasture before they could play hide and seek.

Forty-one geographic features across Wyoming are being renamed as part of a federal initiative to eliminate a term that has been used as an ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.

LARAMIE, Wyo.—The Wyoming Cowboys fell to the San Jose State Spartans in their second Mountain West Conference game of the season on Saturday. The loss takes them to 3-3 on the season and 1-1 in the conference.

KEMMERER, Wyo.—Wyoming’s retiring coal assets and political support for new nuclear power made the state an attractive option for the site of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor. Kemmerer beat out Gillette, Glenrock and Rock Springs for the Natrium plant, which is set to open in 2028. Mayor William (Bill) Thek and others said TerraPower chose Kemmerer due to the community’s ardent approval of the project.

KEMMERER, Wyo.—In late 2019, Teri Picerno heard that the Naughton coal power plant outside of Kemmerer would close in the coming years. The news was devastating for the local bar owner and 42-year resident of the small Wyoming coal town.

GILLETTE, Wyo. ¬– The family of a missing Gillette resident supports an online petition that calls for justice and a concerted effort by police and other state and foreign entities to make her whereabouts known.

Tenley Thompson has worked as a wildlife guide in Wyoming's Greater Yellowstone ecosystem for over 15 years. She and her husband, Dan Bowen, hit the jackpot in 2016 when they purchased an 860-square-foot, two-bedroom house from the Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust after 10 years on the waiting list. If it weren’t for that stroke of luck, Thompson readily admits that there is no way they could afford to live in Jackson Hole, even on two incomes.

As mental health advocates ramp up their suicide prevention efforts, Wyoming’s suicide rate hit a record high last year, new preliminary data illustrates,

GILLETTE, Wyo.—A raccoon shot out of a pile of thick brush near Stacy Koester’s feet. She screamed and did a pirouette before toppling onto the dirt mound she’d been climbing. Koester looked up at the two women standing over her and laughed.

The cards seemed stacked against Christian Cabral when it came to attending college. Finances were tight, as her single mom, JoAnna, held down as many as three jobs in Gillette, cleaning motel rooms and doing food preparation at a gas station while raising Cabral and her two brothers. As the family struggled with basic living expenses, they also faced the costs of medical care for Cabral’s younger brother who has Down Syndrome.

PROVO, Utah—In a game where the Cowboys were 22-point underdogs to the 19th ranked team in the nation, Brigham Young University (BYU), they battled toe-to-toe. The late kickoff led to the game ending close to midnight with BYU on top 38-24.

A new initiative at the University of Wyoming seeks to expand the state’s celebrated sheep and wool industry.

GILLETTE, Wyo. ¬– In the face of record-high inflation and historic gas prices, Antonio Avila had a hard choice to make. The 16-year-old, two-time state wrestling champion from Gillette was given the option to attend national wrestling tournaments in North Carolina or Iowa in October. Both attract college scouts from across the country, and a scholarship to an NCAA Division 1 program is potentially on the line. In the past, Avila would have attended both for maximum exposure.

Kimberly Amen, a third-grade teacher at Pioneer Park Elementary School in Cheyenne, is now following new computer science learning standards on coding and digital citizenship – without having received any training in these subjects. This extra requirement, coupled with Amen’s regular workload and fewer support staff, adds even more responsibility to an educator whose hands are already full.

Three former individuals associated with the University of Wyoming have been found guilty of research misconduct, and corrective action is in progress.

GILLETTE, Wyo.—After six days of silence, Stacy Koester’s TikTok videos are back following a judge’s dismissal of a stalking protection order by the fiancé of a missing Gillette resident who Koester has vowed to find.

As fall arrives in Jackson Hole, the community is holding its breath. The season marks the peak of human/bear conflicts — and last autumn was particularly tense. The region’s most famous bear family left the safety of Grand Teton National Park and wandered into residential regions, putting their lives on the line.

LARAMIE, Wyo.—As 16.5-point underdogs, the Wyoming Cowboys weren’t expected to have a shot at beating the Air Force Falcons. But in the low-scoring battle, the Pokes came out on top 17-14.