The Montana Historical Society announced that Wolf Point High School junior Kailayla Villaluz won a women’s history special award for the senior division. The recognition is part of the program. Villaluz created an individual documentary regarding the forced sterilization of indigenous women. She explained the topic wasn’t something she learned in school, but she found the subject

The Title VI Parent Committee for Wolf Point Schools held its year-end meeting at the high school on Thursday, April 16. The budget for the upcoming year will be $145,288. Items that those funds will cover include salaries and benefits for district home school coordinators and high school Native American Studies teacher. Committee president Rain Turcotte pointed out there aren’t home

The Wolf Point City Council held their regular meeting April 20. Treasurer’s cash reports were approved, as were claims and payroll. Greg Lukasik provided an update on wastewater system improvements. Ongoing repairs on Main Street are expected to take a little longer than planned. Crews will be continuing with work all the way down Main Street to Wolf Point High School. They are averaging

Just over four months into 2026, State Auditor James Brown and his team have helped to prevent nearly $1 million in fraud-related losses for Montanans. As a result of Brown’s recently instituted agency performance initiative, the o_ce began tracking the amount of financial loss prevented through halted payments. To date, a staggering $946,294.99 in fraud losses have been prevented due to the

Average gasoline prices in Montana are unchanged in the last week, averaging $3.87/g on Monday, April 20, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 615 stations in Montana. Prices in Montana are 36.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 75.4 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has decreased 11.7 cents compared to a week ago and stands at $5.500

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 119 cases from April 13-20. The calls included: April 13 Deputies assisted the Wolf Point Police Department at the Waterhole Bar where employees reported a juvenile male showed a firearm and then took off walking north. A Fort Peck Tribes Department of Law and Justice’s narcotics officer assisted. Law enforcement saw the man digging into

The sixth annual Treasure Trail garage/estate sales event stretching from Culbertson to Plentywood has been set for June 5-6. Registration to participate must be received by June 1. The Friday-Saturday tradition features 50 miles of independent sales in and around communities like Antelope, Reserve, Froid, Medicine Lake and Homestead. Maps will be available. For more information, visit the

Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center over the past week included: Xavier Alvarado, 27, Plentywood, failure to register as sexual or violent offender. T’shauna Azure, 27, Wolf Point, criminal endangerment. Chad Bachmann, 46, Red Lodge, hold for other agency. Vincent Bell, 33, Billings, hold for other agency. Dimitri Bruce, 32, Wolf Point, hold for Fort Peck Tribes.