Report

“As the state’s attention focuses on growing and diversifying Wyoming’s economy during this current downturn, all of the inherent benefits of doing business in Wyoming can come in to play,” Gullberg says.

Wyoming's best score is in the finance category at 89.5, which leads the nation again this year after slipping to second place in 2016.

This year's report shows local law enforcement issued 69 citations for violations of state law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reading, writing, 'rithmetic -- and phys ed? The Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students, and that P.E. be designated a core subject...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal review says federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall. But the warnings themselves were confusing. The gigantic October storm lost tropical characteristics hours before landfall in New Jersey, so the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dropped the hurricane warnings...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A children's charity says Wyoming is locking up fewer juveniles but still ranks near the top of the nation. The Associated Press reported Wednesday  that the Annie E. Casey Foundation found Wyoming's juvenile detention rate was second-highest in the country, after South Dakota's...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Department of Education says 139 schools and six school districts in the state failed to meet federal education goals last year. The federal No Child Left Behind Act sets so-called adequate yearly progress benchmarks for schools to meet in order for all students to be proficient in language and math by 2014...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — University of Wyoming President Tom Buchanan recently had a hand in helping shape a new report calling for more board oversight of college athletics. The 14-member panel of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges included presidents and board members from universities across the country...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A new report says Wyoming is among just a handful of states that haven't been cutting research funding at their public universities. The National Science Board says only seven states didn't cut research funding at their public universities between 2002 and 2010...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey plans to release new test results from a Wyoming gas field where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has linked hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination. The data to be released Wednesday comes from samples taken in April near Pavillion in central Wyoming...