Yellowstone, WY – We start a series on songs about Yellowstone.

Wyoming – Wyoming public Radio's Elsa Heidorn turned to Casper Star-Tribune reporter Tom Morton and Channel 5's Executive Producer Robert Geha to analyze the list of 31 candidates who have now thrown their hats in the ring for Wyoming's vacant U.S. Senate seat.

Pinedale, WY – Wyoming Public Radio's Rebbecca Huntington goes to Pinedale to measure residents' feelings on the housing issue.

Wyoming – Because of housing impacts and growth in communities, some agencies are getting pushed. Kristin Espeland reports.

Wyoming – In this second part of our two part series on the lack of affordable housing, Bob Beck finds that in Sheridan a group is moving forward with a possible solution.

Wyoming – Some 350 people crowded into the Plains Hotel wanting to know why they had to pinch their pennies to save gas while oil companies made record profits. And ConocoPhillips didn't shy away from the inquisition. Peter O'Dowd reports.

Wyoming – Conservation groups sue over the delisting of Grizzly bears, saying that the state plans don't go far enough to protect the bears. Elsa Heidorn reports.

Gillette, Wy – Coal-bed methane drillers and others
welcome the lifting of federal restrictions designed to protect
sage grouse in northeast Wyoming's Powder River Basin this spring.
For the last three-and-a-half months there has been a moratorium
on drilling and other surface disturbing activities within two
miles of a sage grouse lek, or mating area. But as the federal restrictions end, the coal-bed methane
industry will find low prices for Wyoming gas.
State Oil and Gas Supervisor Don Likwartz says he isn't sure how

Cheyenne, Wy – New Wyoming laws go into effect July first
making it illegal to have open containers of alcohol in moving
vehicles and imposing tougher penalties on drunken drivers.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol reports that it handled 59 crashes
involving drugs or alcohol last year. Those crashes resulted in 66
deaths.
The patrol issued more than 13-hundred citations for driving
under the influence last year.
Wyoming Attorney General Pat Crank says outlawing open
containers of alcohol in moving vehicles is an important step for

Laramie, Wy – Although the federal minimum wage is increasing there is still a segment of the population that some believe have been left out. That is those who get tips. Reverend Warren Murphy of the Wyoming Association of Churches says that those who get tip wages will not see a mimimum wage hike. He says that needs to change, because those workers struggle in some places. But Murphy adds that even with the minimum wage reaching seven dollars and 25-cents an hour .Murphy says many Wyoming workers will remain near poverty.