The Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board held their regular full board meeting July 14 in Poplar. The board approved the Branch of Corrections’ request to approved a bid from Communication Resources for a Verkada Access Control System, $66,676; infrastructure, $28,687; and labor, $123,345; for a total cost of $218,708. Funeral leave with pay was approved for all temporary and seasonal workers

The Montana Pulse Crop Committee will meet Tuesday, June 10, beginning at 8 a.m. to review financials, RFP funding decisions and address general updates. Meetings will take place in-person at the Eastern Agricultural Research Center in Sidney. The option to join remotely via Zoom is available. To request information to join the meeting virtually, email Dani Jones at danielle. jones@mt.gov.

Gallatin and Flathead were the fastest growing counties in Montana between 2023 and 2024, while the city of Kalispell has grown nearly 25 percent since 2020, adding more residents than any Montana city, according to the latest population growth data from the U.S. Census. The federal government last week released the latest population counts for the nation’s more than 3,000 counties, as well as all

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed two laws geared at making travel safer for both motorists and pedestrians at crossings earlier this month. Senate Bill 471 seeks to make pedestrian crossings safer, while Senate Bill 428 makes it easier for counties to change speed limits. Senate Democrats brought both bills, which passed through the House and Senate by comfortable margins. Sen. Dave Fern brought

Montana State University’s 2025 agricultural field day series will kick off Wednesday, June 18, and continue throughout the summer. Hosted by the College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, the series will include events at all seven of the university’s research centers, plus two at campus farms in Bozeman. The Montana Agricultural Experiment Station comprises the

A Montana State University psychologist is embarking on a study to determine whether common sleep habits of preadolescent children contribute to later psychiatric disorders, such as substance abuse and depression. Cara Palmer, associate professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Letters and Science and director of MSU’s Sleep and Development Laboratory, was awarded $3.3

Average gasoline prices in Montana have risen 0.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.16/g on Monday, May 12, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 615 stations in Montana. Prices in Montana are 3.2 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 30.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has decreased 2.8 cents in the last week and stands at $3.473

Humanities Montana announced last week it is receiving a grant of up to $250,000 from the Mellon Foundation following news its budget was slashed as part of recent federal budget cuts. The contribution is made up of an immediate $200,000 and an additional $50,000 available in matching grants, according to a news release from Humanities Montana. The money is part of a $15 million “emergency

It’s in the Classifieds!

There has been a lot of focus on mental health issues in Montana during the past few years, specifically aimed toward marginalized groups like the LGTBQ community and indigenous peoples. And for good reason. But one statistic that might surprise people is that a high percentage of the suicides in Montana occur in the farming and ranching community, among middle-aged men. Courtney Kibblewhite