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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, August 28th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by ServeWyoming - Wyoming's center for volunteerism and AmeriCorps service for the last 30 years! For volunteer opportunities, visit ServeWyoming dot org"

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At least three of Wyoming's five major wildfires saw rain Monday, which helped firefighters make some progress on containing fires that have so far burned nearly 460,000 acres in Wyoming and southern Montana.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports on Wyoming's notable wildfires."There just were not huge changes as far as the size of each fire, though, we saw some small gains in containment, with the biggest gain, like, I believe, like an 11% gain in the containment of the Flat Rock fire, which is a pretty residential Ranch area there in western Campbell County. So some of these were helped by rain, though, as we discussed Monday, the rain doesn't help as much up in the very timber laden Fish Creek fire area."

Read the full story HERE.

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Over the last few weeks of the Wyoming Republican primary race for U.S. Senate, challenger Reid Rasner touted some highly questionable political polling results he claimed showed he was in a dead heat with incumbent Sen. John Barrasso.

Not only wasn't the election close, it proved Rasner's paid polls to be incredibly inaccurate, as Barrasso beat Rasner by 44 percentage points, according to politics reporter Leo Wolfson.

"I spoke to Rasner, and he said, Yeah, absolutely, I wouldn't have released this poll if I knew it was so inaccurate, it kind of goes against what my campaign was all about, and transparency… quite frankly, polling is just not what it used to be. There's a lot of more challenges for pollsters than there used to be, as far as getting a hold of people and getting people kind of engaged in these polls… But there's also the effects of people just lying on these polling results."

No matter whether Rasner gave out accurate polling information or not, his campaign was likely doomed by other factors such as Barrasso's strong popularity, and the missteps Rasner made along the campaign trail, such as posting photos he took with people without their permission.

Read the full story HERE.

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Colorado-based Energy Fuels Inc., which holds a key uranium production center in Wyoming, along with interests in critical rare earth minerals, has expanded into development and production of medical isotopes used in cancer treatments.

Energy reporter Pat Maio says that Energy Fuels is one of the few uranium-producing businesses that has looked beyond just supplying the critical uranium ore to the nuclear fuel industry.

"The company Energy Fuels has acquired a company called Radtran… which is involved in medical radio isotopes that can treat cancer. So that's a significant move, and you obviously need uranium and some processing of uranium to have that kind of equipment to help with the treatment of cancer."

In May, Energy Fuels announced plans to begin preparing for ramping up its Nichols Ranch uranium mine near Kaycee, for production by 2025.

Read the full story HERE.

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A towering Cheyenne man whom many business owners dread for his tendency to "hex" and threaten them while wielding a staff, is now facing a felony charge o