Election results in Valley County included Jeff Alsberg being elected to an open seat as a county commissioner. Alsberg received 60 percent of the vote compared to Mitch Willett’s 40 percent. Republican Eric Albus defeated Blake Borst by a 77-23 percent margin for the House District #28 seat. Elected were Gregg Hunter as the State Senator for District 15 and Valerie Moore for the State

Shannon Martell and M Girl’s Closet are hosting a holiday market and craft show on Small Business Saturday in Poplar on Nov. 30. The event will run at the Poplar Cultural Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Organizers are seeking vendors. Tables and stands will not be provided. Only one vendor per company will be accepted. For more information, visit the group’s Facebook event page or contact

The Montana Historical Society recently welcomed Lund’s B Bar Angus Ranch in Wibaux County to the Centennial Farm and Ranch register. Randy Lund and his siblings surprised their mother, Ethel, on her 90th birthday with the Centennial designation honoring her and the Lund family’s remarkable longevity on their land. She received the signature MTHS roadside sign, and a framed certificate signed

Absentee ballots are on the way to Montana’s active, registered absentee voters, said Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen in a news release Friday, Oct. 11. “Montana’s 56 county election offices are mailing absentee ballot packets to registered absentee voters today as the 2024 General Election is well underway,” said Jacobsen in a statement. Montanans can track their absentee

Average gasoline prices in Montana have fallen 2.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.18/g on Monday, Oct, 14, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 615 stations in Montana. Prices in Montana are 17.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 72.7 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has declined 3.4 cents in the last week and stands at $3.57

Today (Oct. 4) marks the expiration of the one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill, leaving farmers and ranchers anxious about whether Congress can secure a new, fiveyear reauthorization. Despite Congress giving themselves a full extra year to craft and pass a new farm bill, inaction remains the status quo in the halls of Congress. “We are running out of time,” said American Farm Bureau

The Vaughn man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to violating the Lacey Act by cloning and trafficking a large species of an Asian sheep and selling hybrid offspring DNA was sentenced Monday to six months in prison. The prison sentence for Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 81, was about one-quarter of what he could have been sentenced to under federal sentencing guidelines, according to a sentencing

HELENA – Montana’s twoday, youth-only deer hunt is coming up Oct. 17 and 18, and general deer season opens Oct. 26. Now is a good time to consider signing up for the Apprentice Hunter Program and the application is available on Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ website at fwp.mt.gov/hunt/education/ apprentice-hunter. The apprentice hunter program allows people ages 10 and older to hunt