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The federal Rural Health Transformation Program funds come after months of negotiations, which led Wyoming to drop a planned investment fund. Instead, the state will focus on basic care.

The plan doesn’t include a perpetuity fund. It was meant to stretch out more than a billion federal dollars for decades to come. Instead, Wyoming will spend the funds this year on sustaining basic care.

The state is no longer pursuing a “perpetuity fund” that could have made investments from the Rural Health Transformation Program more sustainable.

Getting the common abortion medication mifepristone via telehealth, mail or pharmacies was banned over the weekend. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily restored access, but that could change.

Abortion is legal once again in Wyoming. A temporary restraining order is in place as litigation continues on the Human Heartbeat Act.

Teton Valley Health Care reveals a previously anonymous $1.5 million donation.

Cardiac activity can be detected with a transvaginal ultrasound at about six weeks. A group of abortion access advocates say they'll ask a court to block the ban.

Gov. Mark Gordon signed over 30 bills into law on Friday and vetoed one that would have killed an investment account, citing constitutional concerns.

Lawmakers passed a bill that outlines how Wyoming will spend its $205 million in federal Rural Health Transformation funds. But the feds still need to OK it. Other bills meant to address rural healthcare challenges have also made it to the governor's desk.

Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska went to Cheyenne a day before the House and Senate reconciled their versions of the budget bill to check in with the Wyoming Hospital Association President Eric Boley. He shared how the budget and some bills going through the legislative session may help or hurt Wyoming’s healthcare situation.