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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, January 28th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Mouse the horse had been missing since July 2025, only to be found alive by snowmobilers in the Wind River Mountains. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that the rescue was an all-hands-on deck situation on Sunday to reach and rescue the horse.

"The horse went missing during a back country packing trip in July 2025 so they knew that there was a horse missing in that area. And one of the people who found the horse actually recognized it, because he was on the packing trip, or the horse went missing, so he knew it was that missing horse. They contacted the owner, and then everyone suddenly got a fire under their butts…So they put together a plan that involved several snowmobilers, a snow cat and a river raft that was supplied so they could load the horse up and drag it across the snow as a one horse open sleigh, if you will. And a successful effort. Once everybody put their minds to it and found the best time they do it, they did it."

They say you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. In this scenario, Mouse was eager to be led anywhere that would get him to warmth and safety, but the horse was effectively trapped in the mountains.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association on Monday voted to move its headquarters, Hall of Fame, and museum to Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 2029. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that PRCA's move from Colorado depends on one main thing.

"It's contingent on funding to help with the move…I think the deal maker here is that it doesn't cost the PRCA anything to move. That's part of the deal. If that's not the case, then they're not going to move. I think the other thing is land that will be suitable and beneficial for what they envision there in Wyoming. And so they're in their press release, they kind of lay that out as somewhere close to the intersection of I 25 and I 80. That's the crossroads of America right there, two very highly traveled interstates…Wyoming has a very deep commitment to rodeo. It's kind of their unofficial professional sport."

Cheyenne Frontier Days chief Tom Hirsig said it's the rodeo equivalent of getting the NFL headquarters.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming lawmakers reversed their denial of $58 million in federal Medicaid funds for tribal clinics after people protested. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Rep. John Bear called it an accounting issue, while Rep. Larsen said Bear was "covering (his) butt."

"Chairman John Bear and Representative Ken Pendergraft, very vocally, voted to block that funding, saying we can't allow this spending increase. We have to look out for the taxpayer. Fast forward, two weeks later, there's protest, there's backlash at the Tribal Relations Committee meeting in Riverton, and Bear says, 'Hey, I want to explain the governor could still move this money through using his own processes'…I confronted Bear like, 'Well, this doesn't match what you said when you voted to block this money.' And he said, 'Okay, but at least part of that was in the back of his mind'…it was representative Lloyd Larson who noted that if the tribal clinics don't get this money, they might cut services, which would send Medicaid covered tribal members to clinics off the reservation where the state actually pays half the bill instead of none of it."

This unfolded at Central Wyoming College in Riverton amid a