As Montana gears up to enter another respiratory illness season, the Department of Public Health and Human Services encourages Montanans to take precautions to help protect against severe symptoms from COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus infections. The number of people ill due to respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia,

As a part of his continued work to ensure Montana communities are prepared for extreme flooding and drought, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has secured $26 million in funding from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration to support soil moisture and snowpack monitoring and improve drought and flood forecasting in Montana and four other Upper Missouri River Basin states. This investment