A vigil to honor a young teen who was stabbed and killed at a mall in Casper is set for Thursday night ..read more

How do different cultures record their histories? For hundreds of years, many Plains Indian tribes created pictorial calendars called winter counts. Every year, a keeper of the history drew an image on an animal hide to record the most important event that had taken place from one winter to the next ..read more

The National Outdoor Leadership School is a wilderness-focused school that leads immersive expeditions in Wyoming and around the world. Earlier in March, NOLS President Sandy Colhoun shared that the school will be making significant changes to address its financial challenges in a letter posted on the organization’s website ..read more

Wyoming Department of Education (DOE) Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder spoke at a town hall on March 11th at the Lander Community and Convention Center. Degenfelder said Wyoming is doing better than most other states when it comes to student performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress ..read more

What are some of the challenges when it comes to preserving the Shoshone and Arapaho languages on the Wind River Reservation? And what’s being done to pass those languages down from generation to generation? Those questions are at the heart of an upcoming talk in Jackson on March 18th titled “Protecting Languages, Preserving Cultures ..read more

When it comes to breast cancer, an early diagnosis can make a big difference. According to the American Cancer Society, women who have breast cancer and were diagnosed in its earliest, localized stages are, on average, 99 percent as likely to live for at least five years after being diagnosed as women without the cancer. So, the Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative (WBCI) wants to help more people stay on top of their breast exams, especially those in more rural parts of the state ..read more

Central Wyoming College (CWC) is bringing two educational series to the Tetons this spring in an effort to build stronger ties between Jackson and the Lander, Riverton, and Wind River Reservation area. The two series are called Teton Talks and Tribal Talks ..read more

The Wiggins Fork Bison Jumps Complex is a high-elevation area in the Absaroka Mountains where different Indigenous tribes worked with and enhanced the landscape’s topography to drive bison off cliffs for harvesting. In comparison to other jumps throughout the state, the site outside of Dubois is big, old, and highly sophisticated, with multiple stone-circle campsites and seven different bison jump sites ..read more

The Wyoming Education Savings Account Act aims to provide low-income families with $40 million in funds to help increase their education options ..read more

As the state’s aging population grows, the need for dementia-focused education is on the rise as well. As part of that response, Wyoming Dementia Together is hosting a six-month-long series of online programs to create connections and community for those who have loved ones living with dementia ..read more