Wyoming

The state's treasurer and retirement system warned the legislation would lead to decreased revenues.

S&P affirmed the state's AA issuer credit rating, citing healthy reserves and plans to increase permanent fund totals to mitigate revenue fluctuations.

The Idawy Solid Waste District is being honored for its four-county, two-state effort to finance a state-of-the-art landfill.

Arizona-based Banner Health adds another hospital to its system as it offers investors $607.6 million of taxable revenue bonds.

After the unprecedented collapse an oil futures contract into negative territory, the leading oil producing states face budget uncertainty.

Issuers in the Far West sold $85 billion of municipal bonds in 2019, a 23% increase from 2018.

Issuers in the nine-state Far West region sold $34.6 billion of municipal bonds in 2019's first six months.

Utilities serving 40 million people and 5 million acres of irrigated farm land agreed to a federal plan to keep water flowing amid a two-decade drought.

All of the nation's top producing states can look for a smoother ride in 2019, S&P analysts say.

Wilshire Consulting said the aggregate funded ratio for U.S. state pension plans remained unchanged between and first and second quarters of 2018 at 70.8%, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous 12 months.

Issuance was down 27% in the region from the first half of 2017, and almost 30% in California, its largest market.

Registered voters in Laramie County will decide on Tuesday whether they want to pay additional property taxes to renovate local college buildings.

Primary market volume in California and the Far West region rose in the first half even as the national figure was down.

Laramie County may see a special election this fall.

S&P Global Ratings said it has lowered its issuer credit rating (ICR) on the State of Wyoming to AA-plus from AAA, and lowered its associated school district guarantee program rating on Fremont County School District No. 1 to AA-plus from AAA.

While some states celebrated President Trump's reversal of the Clean Power Plan and others filed lawsuits, public utilities are expected to continue moves away from coal.

Wyoming’s governor and other leaders are trying to diversify the energy-dependent state’s economy.

Far West issuers sold $90.7 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, a 8.5% increase over the prior year.

The Wyoming legislature is considering a bill that would essentially ban major types of renewable energy in the coal revenue-dependent state.

Most of the oil states have gone into recession, S&P Global Ratings said in a new report.