Roosevelt County currently has seven active COVID cases. There have been 3,306 total cases in the county. Adult COVID vaccination clinics are scheduled from 3-5 p.m. on June 16 in Wolf Point and June 23 in Culbertson. County health officials encourage all residents aged 5 and up to be vaccinated and those over 16 should consider getting booster doses. Immunizations are by appointment only.

Heavy rain on top of deep snowpack resulted in “unprecedented” flooding in parts of southern Montana on Monday, June 13, forcing the evacuation and temporary closure of Yellowstone National Park. Dan Borsum, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings, said most of the flooding was taking place in and around the Beartooth and Absaroka mountains, impacting communities including

U.S. Senator Jon Tester today announced $46,426,937 for Montana public lands, including funding for conservation, land acquisition, and deferred maintenance work in National Forests Across the state. The funding comes from Fiscal Year 2022 allocations of Tester’s bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act. “Montana’s public lands power our $7.1 billion outdoor recreation economy here in the

A Helena judge has ordered that the state Public Service Commission cannot charge fees to conduct legal reviews on documents produced as part of public records requests. The decision came after a lawsuit regarding a request for public information was made last year by a reporter for The Billings Gazette. The newspaper sued the PSC objecting to the charging of legal fees. According to the

Fields across Montana may be under-fertilized if fertilizer rates were based on drought conditions, since snow and rain this spring increased potential yields in some areas, according to Clain Jones, a soil fertility specialist with Montana State University Extension. Jones said that this year, producers may have fertilized less because of very high fertilizer costs combined with early-season

Former congressman and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke narrowly won the Republican primary last week in the inaugural race to represent Montana’s Western congressional district. He will face off against Democrat Monica Tranel on the November ballot. The results, posted Thursday evening on the Montana secretary of state’s website, came almost two days after polls closed due to a physical error