Wyoming

For many years, the states of Montana and Wyoming have been battling over water from the Yellowstone River, but now the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Montana in the dispute.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — State game managers have trapped and relocated a grizzly bear near Cody in northwest Wyoming.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state of Montana after deciding the state suffered damages as the result of Wyoming’s failure to abide by terms of the Yellowstone River Compact with respect to waters of the Tongue River.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) — An avalanche south of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has killed two skiers. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports (http://bit.ly/1ZNvvta ) that three skiers in the Rock Springs area just outside the resort's south boundary were caught in the avalanche Sunday...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — An avalanche warning is in effect for several mountainous areas in western Montana and western Wyoming. The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center rates the danger of avalanche as "high" in the Bridger Range north of Bozeman, the Gallatin and Madison mountain ranges south of Bozeman, the Lionhead area west of West Yellowstone and the mountains north of Cooke City

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A congressional committee will consider legislation to allow canoes, rafts and other "hand-propelled" vessels to be used on hundreds of miles of rivers and streams in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks...

The state of Montana has put a new weed at atop its noxious weed priority list.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A national science panel is conducting a broad review of a livestock disease that's afflicted large numbers of elk and bison in the Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. The panel is convening at Montana State University in Bozeman for two days beginning Wednesday to gather information about brucellosis, which can cause pregnant animals to abort their young... Re

You think you are a law abiding citizen of the West? Well, you may not be after we open your eyes with the strangest laws in our region.

If we were to take into consideration that the full authority of all things funny completely fell on the shoulders of 'America's Funniest Home Videos' then this study might prove accurate. Still, consider that this program has been on the air for more than two decades, it might be safe to assume that they have the knowledge of what is humorous after all.