A North Carolina congresswoman said Thursday she chose her words poorly when she called claims that a Wyoming college student was murdered because he was gay a “hoax.”

A North Carolina congresswoman says she made a poor choice of words when she called the infamous murder of a gay Wyoming student a “hoax” to justify passing hate crimes bills.

A slow-moving storm has dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of Colorado and Wyoming, and plenty more is on the way in some places.

They’re a fixture along Wyoming’s wintery, wind-blown roadways _ fences that have spent up to 50 years blocking blowing snow and keeping roadways clear of drifts in the winter.

Beneath the frozen plains of eastern Montana and Wyoming lie the largest coal deposits in the world _ enough to last the United States more than a century at the nation’s current burn rate.

Authorities in Wyoming say a mile-long avalanche has killed three snowmobilers near the Wyoming-Idaho state line.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he’s scrapping leases on federal land for oil-shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Billy White scored a career-high 24 points as he set a school shooting record to lead San Diego State to a 71-60 win over Wyoming on Saturday night.

Police say an unknown white powder that forced the evacuation of Casper Star-Tribune offices in Wyoming has been identified as cocaine.

A man has been cited for public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town of Cody. Police said they cited 28-year-old Benjamin Daniels, of Cody, after they received a call at 4 p.m. Sunday from a motorist who