I look on sleep with envy even more than I ever did as a younger person. It's because I don't get any. Not very much, at least. Not that I don't have time ...

In the days of high interest rates paid by banks, they used to talk about high-interest savings accounts and checking accounts where interest was "compounded ...

"Write what you know." That's the advice and guidance I've heard most often repeated by writing instructors. I received encouraging comments from male ...

Wyoming waited longer than most state to permit licenses plates deviating from the basic style. There were very small differences in licenses plates for ...

The next community If you've been following the local fundraising drive to raise money to pay for a feasibility study on the Riverton Medical District's plan ...

A day at a time "In the bleak midwinter," begins a song often sung around Christmas time - when winter actually is only a few days old. Even now, in the midst ...

It's the best kept secret in Fremont County.The Wyoming Indian girls are good this season, very good, maybe good on a legendary scale. Wyoming Indian head ...

I watched perhaps the saddest example of what passes for presidential leadership in my lifetime this week as President Trump rattled off mythical statistics to ...

Hundreds of ideas for new laws were pre-filed before the Wyoming Legislature convened into general session on Tuesday. Among the most talked-about is ...

Leaving a place used to simply mean leaving behind the location, the objects there, the people I knew. As I've developed my birding hobby, it's also come to ...

Less than two weeks ago The Ranger compiled and published our annual list of the top 10 local news stories of 2018. We already may well have seen No. 1 for ...

Being the least-populated state in the nation isn't always a great thing, but one advantage it gives Wyoming over the other 49 states is that important public ...

I'll have you know I didn't lose my cat. I merely misplaced her. The day after Christmas I wrote a tale from the perspective of a stray cat who had been ...

Our state has a new governor. Mark Gordon, elected in November after a term and a half as Wyoming State Treasurer, took the oath of office Monday morning in ...

Back in the saddle We're back on our regular Ranger publication schedule after a couple of odd holiday-week interruptions. Expect five days a week from now ...

"Offense is a 3-point shot or a dunk. Defense is a blocked shot." So goes the lament of those who miss the classic game of basketball -- game as it was played ...

They're scattered everywhere. In the shop, the back of the truck, against the fence and next to the well house, just about anywhere they could be used. The ...

Every session of the Wyoming Legislature is different from the one before it. The one starting this week has more differences than most. For the first time ...

I participated this year in the Riverton Christmas Bird Count. Held annually in towns around the nation, the count seeks to inventory every avian in the area, ...

We're in oath-of-office season in Fremont County, Wyoming, and the nation. Most elected officials who won in November are being sworn in during these early ...

A national news analyst wrote about some of the history of "divided government" in Wednesday's Ranger. Much has been made about the return of Democrat Nancy ...

I should know; I've been married to him since 1942. Are you feeling better about yourself this New Year of 2019? Or don't you make resolutions? My sisters ...

Deti Stadium on the campus of Laramie High School on the north side of the university city is just a name to most people, but it has a history attached to the ...

2019 Your daily newspaper staff appreciated the day off Tuesday in observance of New Year's Day. Not every holiday affects our publication schedule, depending ...

New Year's resolutions are good things. Even if we don't follow through. They are better if we do follow through, of course. But that isn't necessarily the ...

Almost an inch had fallen overnight. Beverly and Darlene, the next door neighbor girls, ran over to our house early the next morning. "No school today, it's ...

I hate the idea of being identified by things I've chosen to put on my car. Maybe it's because I judge other people so much for their own roadway ...