Nurses at Northeast Montana Health Services will soon be honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation's mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care they provide patients and families every day. The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes by members of his family.

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks will travel to 65 communities in five states this summer to perform two classic Shakespeare plays. For its 52nd season, the traveling theatre group, which is an outreach program of Montana State University’s College of Arts and Architecture, announced the playbill will feature Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale. Hamlet will be presented in Wolf Point starting

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will host a virtual meeting to gather input for the 2025-26 fishing regulations. The virtual meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 9, at 6 p.m. Fishing regulations are now under a process like hunting regulations, going through a comprehensive public review every two years. Fishing regulations are printed during odd numbered years. To review FWP’s proposed

Landowners, watershed groups and others have until May 15 to apply for summer Future Fisheries Improvement Program grants. The goal of Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ FFIP is to restore rivers, streams and lakes to improve Montana’s wild fish habitat. Entities can receive funding for qualifying projects that benefit Montana’s wild fish. Each project is assessed by an independent review panel

Agricultural producers with land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program can apply for enrollment in Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ CRP Add-on Lease option. This option is designed to benefit producers while also providing habitat for upland game birds and other wildlife and also giving game bird hunters more places to hunt. The CRP Add-on Lease option is offered through

In a complex decision that stretches back nearly a decade, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that two wrongs don’t make a court case right. In a decision released Wednesday, March 20, a unanimous court ruled that while Montana’s largest energy provider, NorthWestern Energy, did not follow the law by trying to add more renewable, local energy to its portfolio, neither the Montana Public Service

The federal government approved Montana’s plan to address disparities in broadband access — which opens up the state to compete for more federal funding to bridge the digital divide. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Tuesday approved the state’s plan to expand digital access, skills and affordability as part of the federal $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act.