Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray will serve as the 2025 Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer in environmental studies at the University of Montana. His memoir, Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home, was published by Milkweed Editions earlier this year. La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendant of the Pembina Band of the Red River of the North and an enrolled member

MISSOULA — On a Tuesday evening in late October, the smell of cooking onions and meat combined with the sound of lively chatter to create a friendly warmth in Missoula Food Bank’s learning kitchen as about a dozen people prepared bison salsa verde enchiladas. The cooking class, held by All Nations Health Center on Oct. 22, was the second of a three-part series focused on meal prep and Indigenous

A newly renovated wing of the Eastern Montana Veterans Home just received another upgrade with large, canvas photos taken by a pair of local photographers now gracing the hallways, a project brought to completion just in time for Veterans Day. “The pictures are amazing,” said EMVH Foundation board member Gary Kirkpatrick, whose father formerly lived at the facility. The photographers

Military challenge coins serve as an easy conversation starter. Some are tokens of time spent overseas, while others are a remembrance of rank or an award. Now, a new set of challenge coins minted by the state of Montana — and designed by a Montana State University student — are intended to aid in preventing suicide among veterans. Dubbed 988+1 suicide prevention coins, the coins will

Montanans have been dazzled in recent months by colorful displays of the aurora, or northern lights, which occur when plasma and energetic particles ejected by the sun slam into Earth’s atmosphere and clash with the planet’s magnetic field. As spectacular as those light shows have been, Montana State University solar physicist Rachael Filwett says the solar energetic particle, or SEP,