Wyoming just took the step to require hospitals to publicly post their prices for services. Colorado has had that requirement since 2021, and now a nonprofit is trying to help consumers make better sense of the data.

As health care systems move toward more and more electronic record keeping, the labor it takes to manage that data threatens to cripple rural hospitals, according to industry insiders.

On Wednesday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated one million dollars to fight Proposition 1. The initiative would restore reproductive rights in Idaho, allowing abortions up to fetal viability and in medical emergencies.

Wyoming is getting $2.4 million from the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, a bump over the previous year.

A bill — known as the Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety Act — was recently introduced in both chambers of Congress, and enjoys bipartisan support.

A recent study from the Desert Research Institute offers a detailed look at how wildfire smoke impacts air quality.

Public health says the risk is limited as school is called off.

The federal government awarded millions of dollars to states to develop programs to train more healthcare providers in rural areas.

That’s especially true in the Mountain West. In most states, if one delivery unit shuts down, the next closest one is more than an hour away.

About half of Wyoming counties don’t have an OB-GYN. At least nine don’t have labor and delivery units.