Hours after a Wyoming judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state’s newly-enacted total abortion ban from being enforced, federal authorities announced that a Casper woman had been arrested and charged with the May 2022 arson of a would-be abortion clinic.

As the State of Wyoming prepares to launch its own cryptocurrency, Gov. Mark Gordon finds the effort somewhat ironic.

Having strived for years to be a leader in the world of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, Wyoming is now preparing to take its boldest action yet: issuing its own digital version of a dollar bill.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday evening said he would enable Senate File 133, a controversial measure to prohibit transgender females from participating in interscholastic girls’ sports, to take effect without his signature.

Wyoming has become the latest U.S. state to outlaw abortions, as Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday signed one measure banning medications used to terminate pregnancies, and enabled another measure criminalizing most abortions in the state to take effect without his signature.

By signing Senate File 109 into law, Wyoming is the first state in the nation to explicitly ban medications that terminate pregnancy, the most prevalent abortion method today. Beginning in July, the prescription, sale or distribution of medications used “for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion on any person” will be criminalized.

Amid the ongoing fallout over the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in California and Signature Bank in New York late last week, President Joe Biden on Friday called on lawmakers in Washington to expand the federal government’s ability to regulate failed financial institutions.

WASHINGTON — For much of contemporary American political history, the annual machinations around government budgeting have followed a similar trajectory: the president would release his proposal, accompanied by a press conference or background briefing for reporters; congressional lawmakers in his party would praise it, while those across the aisle would rip it to shreds; and the ultimate federal allocation would end up somewhere in the middle, emerging through a compromise.

Gov. Mark Gordon on Thursday signed a law that protects the requirements listed in the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) at a state level ahead of a forthcoming decision from the U.S. Supreme Court about the future of the federal act.

Hunting is a staple of Wyoming life — being enshrined in the state constitution — and, unsurprisingly, it was the subject of several bills taken up by the Wyoming Legislature.

The familiar topics of Medicaid expansion and abortion returned to the Wyoming Legislature this winter, and lawmakers took action.

Following up on legislation from last year, lawmakers passed two bills that further restrict abortion in Wyoming and another that will expand Medicaid coverage for new mothers.

Senators and representatives also considered several pieces of legislation related to transgender issues, though the only notable bill to pass was one banning students assigned male at birth from competing in female sports in middle and high school.

Additionally, the Legislature boosted alert systems for missing persons and prohibited child marriages, with few exceptions.

Over the past two months, lawmakers, lobbyists, activists and others gathered in Cheyenne to debate nearly 500 pieces of legislation covering the gamut of Wyoming life.

Most of the bills failed for one reason or another; some never got a hearing. But when the dust settled Friday on the at-times contentious session, Wyoming’s citizen Legislature had passed 196 bills. They included new restrictions on abortions and recognition of July 20 as “Moon Landing Day.”

On the penultimate day of the 2023 legislative general session, Wyoming lawmakers approved two new measures to further limit access to abortion in the latest development in the ongoing debate over reproductive care in the Equality State.

At a Thursday night meeting of the Park County Republican Party, a round of applause greeted the news that Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon would not stand in the way of a bill that restricts voters’ abilities to switch political parties ahead of the primary election.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Once a mandatory stop for would-be Republican presidential aspirants, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, has taken on a diminished standing this year — despite attendees’ rock star welcome for Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman.

The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would codify provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) into state law as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the fate of the federal act later this year.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) can add a new title to her resume: professor.

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics announced Wednesday that Cheney accepted an appointment to serve as the center’s professor of practice, a new role in the institution effective immediately.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on the U.S. House Natural Resources Panel’s Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs assembled for their first hearing of the 118th Congress on Wednesday to highlight long-standing barriers to economic development on tribal lands, kicking off a new bipartisan push to promote sovereignty for Indigenous Americans.

The governor on Thursday signed a law to support funding efforts for around-the-clock local suicide prevention services in Wyoming, a state with one of the highest suicide rates per capita nationwide.

Gov. Mark Gordon on Thursday signed a law that sets a minimum age limit for marriages in Wyoming.

The governor green-lighted House Enrolled Act 44, also known as House Bill 7 or “Underage marriage-amendments,” which requires that individuals getting married must be at least 18 years old (with few exceptions) and prohibits marriages for anyone under the age of 16.

Gov. Mark Gordon this week signed a law that boosts Wyoming’s missing persons alert systems to include vulnerable adults and to assist tribal nations with their emergency communications networks.