So far, four individuals have announced their intentions to run for the new U.S. House of Representatives’ seat in Montana. The position resulted after the U.S. Census Bureau showed that the state’s increase in population was enough add a second seat. U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, is currently the state’s lone U.S. representative. The boundaries for the new seat is yet to be determined.

The delta variant of coronavirus, a more transmissible strain that is quickly becoming dominant in the U.S., has been documented in Gallatin County. Two cases of the variant were reported in Gallatin County on Wednesday, July 7, by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Safety. Cascade County has also confirmed its first case of the Delta COVID-19 variant strain. The Cascade

Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) are teaming up to introduce a bipartisan bill aimed at improving the Veterans Crisis Line’s staff training, management and response to highrisk veteran callers at risk of suicide. The Senators’ Revising and Expediting Actions for the Crisis Hotline for Veterans Act would implement key recommendations

Fort Peck Community College was recently selected as a grant recipient of the American Indian College Fund’s Community-Based Learning and Sharing Grant. FPCC was awarded $20,000 for this one-year grant to help support the development and implementation of Native arts community workshops and/or academic courses in traditional Native arts and/or contemporary Native arts. “FPCC’s Community-Based