UW plans wind energy center

LARAMIE -- University of Wyoming trustees on Friday approved initial planning for a building that will house a UW Wind Energy Research Center, including a large, closed-loop wind tunnel.

State studies I-80 trucker tolls

CHEYENNE -- In a push to secure new highway funding sources, state transportation officials are exploring whether commercial truckers should be required to pay tolls to use Interstate 80.

Planking the prairie

PINEDALE -- The gray sagebrush stalks pepper the space around the two yellow poles set back 100 yards from the road beneath the snow-capped Wind River Mountains in the distance.

The state of American churches

In the past 40 years America's mainline Protestant churches have suffered a membership loss of one-third, and shrinkage continues, despite impressive efforts to shore up the churches.

Rare bears' mating efforts fail to produce cubs, so science steps in

Spike comes from Omaha, and Kaika from Honolulu. Maybe that fact alone is enough to doom their prospects. For whatever reason, they've had sex hundreds of times at the Oakland Zoo but have never produced offspring.