LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new report shows that Nebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate of 2.7 percent last month was the lowest in the country.

The Nebraska Labor Department said in the report released Friday that the February rate is seven-tenths of a point under the February 2014 rate of 3.4 percent.

The new Nebraska figure remains well below the preliminary national unemployment rate of 5.5 percent in February. U.S. Labor Department figures say Nebraska was trailed by North Dakota at 2.9 percent and South Dakota and Utah at 3.4 percent.