Articles with the Tag: Montana
RONAN – United States Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana), stopped in Ronan to share his views on issues from healthcare to water rights on Wednesday, May 31. Tester said President Trump’s first proposed budget cuts a lot of federally funded programs, which if approved will negatively impact everyo...
News from the Governor’s Office MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock, First Lady Lisa Bullock and the Montana Commission on Community Service recognized the 2017 recipients of the ServeMontana Awards on Friday, June 2. “It’s an incredible honor to recognize some of the outstanding...
Dr. Doug Melzer usually works nights in the emergency room at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. He spends most of his time dealing with the usual emergency room fare: heart attacks, pneumonia, broken hips. But about once a week he treats patients coming into the emergency room because they’re ...
POLSON – As a victim of child sexual abuse, Grace Manchala has a heart for child victims of sex trafficking. Manchala spoke about her passion to shed light on the problem before the Lake County Pachyderm Club on Friday, May 26. Growing up in India, Manchala suffered from abuse from a ...
PABLO – Marita Growing Thunder’s graduation ceremony from Polson High School on Saturday, June 3, marked the finish point of her yearlong project to give voice to missing or murdered indigenous women. “As many times as I wanted to give up, I made it,” she said. She vowed t...
LAKE COUNTY – Lake County’s election results once again predicted the overall winner of a major election during the May 25 Special Election for Montana’s U.S. House of Representatives seat. Montana’s overall numbers are at 50 percent for Republican candidate Greg Gianforte to Democ...
PABLO – A sub-adult grizzly bear weighing 390 pounds stood on the grass at Salish Kootenai College to welcome people to the Fifth Annual Community Birds and Bears Festival on Thursday. The grizzly looked like it might be walking through campus on its way to forage for food, but it turns out that it ...
It was a bust made to go viral. Following a 2013 shooting between father and son, Walter White was arrested for meth distribution in Billings. White, who shares his name with the fictional meth dealer from the television program “Breaking Bad,” had been caught after the fight over a $10,...
News from the Montana Sporting Coalition Thirty years ago, the Montana Legislature passed a bill to establish a one-of-a-kind program to conserve Montana’s best wildlife habitat. Habitat Montana, as it is known, has done just that. With over 600,000 acres of conservation easements and fee-title la...
News from the State of Montana The State of Montana now requires all watercraft transported from out of state or transported from east of the Continental Divide into Western Montana to be inspected before launching into Montana waters. Additional Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes regulations apply...
