Laramie, WY – A federal board chastised conservation groups while it denied their appeal over energy development on southern Wyoming's Atlantic Rim.

The Interior Board of Land Appeals denied an appeal by the Wyoming Outdoor Council and Biodiversity Conservation Alliance.

The groups had asked the board to intervene in the leasing of exploratory wells in the Atlantic Rim coal-bed methane project area. The groups said the Bureau of Land Management did not do enough analysis on environmental issues to issue the leases.

Laramie, WY – Three people were presumed dead after their medical plane slammed into a Colorado mountainside today, leaving wreckage rescuers described as catastrophic.

The body of one the three crew members has been recovered from the wreckage and authorities concluded no one else could have survived the impact. The crew included a pilot, a flight nurse and a paramedic.

The plane had disappeared during a flight from Chinle, Ariz., to Alamosa to pick up a patient. It appeared to be on descent when it crashed into a mountain just west of the Continental Divide.

Wyoming – Some Professors at the University of Wyoming are looking at using a public school model to change the way they teach students. Called Multi-discplinary education it uses Math and Science to teach English, classes in the Humanities and vice versa. At least one elementary school district has had tremendous success with the approach. Bob Beck reports.

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Laramie, WY – Pronghorn antelope numbers are booming in Wyoming, and that's especially true in the northeast corner of the state.

The state Game and Fish Department's Warren Mischke says there are about 40-thousand pronghorn in Campbell County right now. He says in the year 1920, there were only 20-thousand pronghorn in the whole state. Mischke says that's the reason his department is allowing hunters to kill seven thousand of the animals in northeast Wyoming this season if they can.

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Wyoming – Wyoming grows less than one percent every year, and it's been like that for a long time. Peter O'Dowd finds out why, and whether it will change anytime soon.

Wyoming – Through August, Wyoming airports have seen a jump of nearly 15 percent in passengers, compared to the same period last year. Elsa Partan talks with Amber Schlabs and Shelly Reams, of the Aeronautics Commission.

Wyoming – A study says the University of Wyoming ranked number two in access to sexual health tests and safe sex materials. But concerned sexual health experts are still seeing a surprising number of sexually transmitted diseases, despite the availability of resources. Wyoming Public Radio's Hayley Douglass reports.