Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced Montana’s unemployment rate in August was below 3 percent for the 22nd consecutive month, bucking national trends as the country’s unemployment rate rose to 3.8 percent in August. Montanans have created more than 8,600 jobs in the first eight months of 2023 and nearly 40,000 jobs since Gianforte took office in January 2021. “Despite national headwinds

The Montana Department of Transportation would like to announce and invite the public to comment on a proposal to reconstruct about seven miles of Montana Highway 13, 26 miles south of Scobey. The project begins at the intersection with County Road 17-2040 near mile marker 25, and extends north, ending near mile marker 32. Proposed work includes reconstructing and widening the roadway surface,

Montana children with learning disabilities could get a boost thanks to new research at Montana State University that seeks to better understand how visual hand gestures can aid in communications in the classroom and home. The project, which started in August and is funded with $67,000 from Montana INBRE, is a collaboration between researchers in MSU’s Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering,