COVID-19
BUFFALO (WNE) — An increase in acute cases of COVID-19, primarily from the county's long term care facilities, is keeping Johnson County Healthcare Center “fairly busy,” the hospital's chief of staff Dr. Ryan Ludwig told the hospital district board of trustees at its October meeting.
“Recently,...
CASPER — Wyoming’s 2022 scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress dropped slightly from 2019, mirroring a countrywide trend of decreasing scores on the test following the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) testing is administered every two years...
CHEYENNE — Just as they have in some other states and across the nation on average, scores on a college admissions test have dropped in Wyoming, recently released data show.
Nationally and locally, officials have said the COVID-19 pandemic has affected learning, and this has shown up in test...
SHERIDAN (WNE) — The rate of financial exploitation targeting older adults has more than doubled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from AARP.
“This report illustrates how the pandemic created a number of shifts in the behaviors of older adults that criminals are...
LARAMIE — County clerks across Wyoming received an unexpected request from Interim Secretary of State Karl Allred last Friday. He sent a letter asking them to consider discontinuing the use of ballot drop boxes in the current election.
Seven counties in Wyoming provide ballot boxes as a method for...
CHEYENNE (WNE) — Some sectors in Wyoming have recovered all of the jobs lost during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, while other industries have not regained all of the staff they had in the second quarter of 2019.
These and other economic statistics are contained in a newly released...
It’s tempting to blame the pandemic for the dizzying rates of mental health concerns among American teens. We are all familiar with the impact Covid is having on our lives, and the disruption it continues to cause in the lives of young people. Kids witnessed vehement disagreements between neighbors...
LARAMIE — Despite complaints from residents, Laramie City Council voted to continue its virtual-only format on Tuesday during a Zoom meeting.
Council member Bryan Shuster brought forward a motion that would allow the city to provide a hybrid meeting format — city councilors and the public would...
BUFFALO — The supply of blood remains critically low in the region and across the U.S., according to Vitalant, the company that supplies blood to most of Wyoming's hospitals.
"In the last year, it's been pretty rough nationwide across the board,” said Tori Robbins, communications manager for...
SHERIDAN — Experts estimate that thousands of people are missing from Wyoming’s workforce, but whether that is due to the pandemic, “quiet quitting” or a state population that is quickly approaching retirement age is unknown.
Citing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Wenlin Liu, chief...
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