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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, October 21th. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B forward slash story."

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The corner-crossing war is over. The ability to ladder-vault a corner of private property to access landlocked public lands is now the rule across the American West. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports the decision came early on Monday morning from Washington DC.

"At 7:30 our time, without a word, the US Supreme Court denied cert…to Fred Eshleman's Iron Bar Holdings in the corner-crossing lawsuit, meaning the four hunters who crossed his property to access landlocked…public land, won basically. You cannot bar access to public land with your private land corner. Crossing is legal."

The win is bittersweet for the hunters' attorney, Ryan Semerad of Casper-based firm Fuller and Semerad. He believes they would have prevailed in Washington, D.C., had the high court chosen to hear the case.

Read the full story HERE.

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A fuel-tax hike has been shot down in Wyoming, despite the fact that WYDOT is facing a 400-million-dollar-deficit. Cowboy State Daily's Jackson Walker reports why, despite being in the negative, lawmakers didn't pass the tax to fund the department of transportation.

"This tax was intended to fill in some of that deficit. Now, lawmakers debated back and forth about the merits of this, whether or not it would be the right thing to do for the people of Wyoming, and many comparisons were drawn to Colorado, a place that has a very high tax rate for a lot of different things. And at the end of the day, lawmakers decided this is not something that's right for Wyoming, and they shot it down, which means that this bill is not going to move forward in the coming legislative session, and it is not going to be considered for something that is going to go into law."

The bill would have increased Wyoming's tax on gasoline and diesel fuel from 24 cents to 29 cents beginning in July 2026.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Wyoming legislative committee meeting in Cheyenne has adopted a draft bill to let all state law enforcement officers ticket commercial truckers caught driving without being proficient in the English language. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports this bill mirrors a federal test that was resurrected by the Trump Administration.

"Obama actually kind of castrated that rule and the Trump administration revived it in June…the basic parameters are the basic parameters set in federal rule that Wyoming seeks to match. Are you able to read the signs, respond to official inquiries, fill out your log books and converse with the general public. Those are the four parameters that the federal rule uses that the Wyoming bill seeks to incorporate."

The Transportation, Highways, and Military Affairs Committee voted 11 to 1 to sponsor the bill giving the legislation an edge going into the 2026 budget session, which opens February 9th.

Read the full story HERE.

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