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Grant application cycle now open

News from the Montana Department of Commerce MONTANA —  The Montana Departments of Commerce and Natural Resources and Conservation announced that Montana communities can now apply for federal water and sewer infrastructure improvement grants through the American Rescue Plan Act. “The...

Local brew company takes home awards

Valley Journal Glacier Brewing Company was awarded a silver for the Cow in a Coalmine and their Snow Pack Huckleberry seltzer received a bronze award during the Montana Brew Fest held in Great Falls on June 12.   The event was organized as a competition for Montana’s “best beer all i...

Montana prepared for fire season

News from the Office of the Governor MONTANA — Governor Greg Gianforte received the 2021 Fire Season Briefing from state and federal agency administrators and fire management officers. “Much of Montana is currently in moderate to extreme drought conditions, increasing the risk of a severe...

Storms increase local snowpack

News from USDA MONTANA — Following two months of well below average precipitation, rain and snow was welcomed across much of Montana during May.  Two mid-month storms brought significant precipitation to the Rocky Mountain Front and portions of the Flathead River Basin according to data fr...

Storyteller Bud Cheff Jr. awarded Storyteller Bud Cheff Jr. awarded

News from the Montana Historical Society MONTANA — Bev and Gene Allen, Birdie Real Bird, and Bud Cheff Jr. are the 2021 Heritage Award honorees, with A&E Design earning special recognition as the 2021 Heritage Guardian. The Montana Historical Society Board of Trustees chose the Heritage Kee...

Gianforte sets wildfire priorities for ‘above-normal’ season Gianforte sets wildfire priorities for ‘above-normal’ season

MONTANA — In a wildfire briefing at the state Capitol attended by more than a dozen land use and wildfire response agency leaders, Gov. Greg Gianforte said he wants to double the number of treated acres on Montana’s forests and pressured the National Park Service to extinguish all wildfire starts...

MSU researchers develop CRISPR-based coronavirus rapid test MSU researchers develop CRISPR-based coronavirus rapid test

MONTANA — While the coronavirus pandemic has proven once more that the tiniest germ can upset global civilization, a Montana State University team has responded by illustrating that ancient strategies used by bacteria to battle viruses can be repurposed into transformative technologies. Leveraging h...

Donations bring Special Olympics Montana within $250,000 of goal

News from Special Olympics Montana   MONTANA — Long-time premier sponsors of Special Olympics Montana stepped forward in a big way. First Interstate Bank announced it would donate $1 million to the SOMT Reveal the Champion in All of Us Endowment Campaign, and the Dennis and Phyllis Washington ...

Political fear mongering will erode Indian Education for All

In response to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s recently published opinion and the opinion of the Montana Attorney General regarding critical race theory, the undersigned members of the Montana Legislative Indian Caucus offer the following response.  In 1972, the Montana legisla...

Montanans encouraged to make brain health a priority

News from the Alzheimer’s Association of Montana MONTANA — With COVID-19 vaccines rolling out across the country, many Americans are looking forward to resuming their lives and returning to normal. During June, Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, the Alzheimer’s Association ur...


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