• Cokeville faces Big Horn on Friday at 12 noon It was a season that promised a lot of success as a senior-laden and experienced Cokeville Panther squad delivered in 2026. CHS used their dominant run game to pull away from the visiting Mountain View Buffalos to secure their spot in the Wyoming 2A title game this Friday at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie. It was the second one-sided win over Mountain View this season for the Panthers who defeated the Buffs in conference play 41-0. Kashton Walker rushed for three of those touchdowns and also collected an interception on defense to lead the way as the Panthers advanced to the title game for the second time in the last three seasons. It will be a rematch of that game as the Cokeville will take on the Big Horn Rams who are in the game for the fifth straight year. “We knew it was going to be a harder game and it was,” replied head coach Marty Linford.
An overview of how the city of Laramie’s challenges to expanding its bus system Photo by Marcus Kopp The city of Laramie has identified serious issues within the city’s current transit systems, including more routes to the University of Wyoming. After discussion and a survey, the city has decided to adopt a 10-year plan to expand the transportation system to address these gaps in service. “The city wanted a plan to fill the gaps where service isn’t necessarily available in Laramie,” said University of Wyoming Director of Transportation Paul Krunkel. “Our current budget for transit, it’s around 3.5 million. With all said and done, the operating costs of what this would look like 10 years would be, 7.5 to 8 million [dollar] operating costs a year. So, it’d be substantial, and I’m glad they’ve put together a phase plan, so we’re not putting it all together at once.
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While Rapid City residents debate whether data centers belong in their backyard, a homegrown corporation is quietly anchoring some of the largest tech developments in the country — just across the state line. Back home, its South Dakota electricity customers face substantial rate increases. Meanwhile, Black Hills Corp. expects to earn $150 million annually by 2030 from supplying electricity to Google. That’s more than half the $291.6 million that Black Hills Corp. earned for shareholders in 2025. On Nov. 5, Google announced a $17 billion investment in a data center near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Rapid City-based Black Hills Corp., parent company of Black Hills Energy, has agreed to help power it. Black Hills plans to invest $1.8 billion in natural gas generating plants and coordinate electricity from other producers through a privately managed power system.
The Air Force is exploring the reactivation of a north-central Montana nuclear missile field, roughly the size of Rhode Island, as part of the Department of Defense’s Sentinel project to replace the land-based arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. The area under consideration includes 50 missile silos that make up the 564th Missile Squadron, which spans the area between Dutton and Shelby and was officially deactivated in 2008. The proposed reactivation of the 564th has recently been included in a supplemental environmental impact statement being prepared by the Air Force. The proposal would be yet another expansion of the $140 billion Sentinel project, which has already seen delays and a pivot toward digging new silos after initially planning to use the original ones. A government review was ordered in 2024 after project costs grew by 81%. The U.S.
