The Elks National Foundation has announced the start of the 2024 Elks Most Valuable Student scholarship contest. The MVS scholarship is available to high school seniors who are United States citizens. Applicants do not need to be related to a member of the Elks. The judging criteria is based on academics, leadership, service and financial need. The application is completed online and must

The Roosevelt County Commissioners approved a change for the county’s law enforcement during a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 19. With the current jail administrator leaving the position, the change consists of Jason Baker now taking over the duties of running the jail while also remaining a patrol staff lieutenant. Under Sheriff John Summers explained a benefit of the change is that the jail

Vida School serves 45 students from kindergarten through sixth grade and is a point of pride for the local rural community. The growing student population has tripled in size since 2020, emphasizing the need for improvement in the school’s activity areas. This need was recently met when Vida School was awarded $100,000 from Ag-West Farm Credit’s Local Advisory Committee Guided Stewardship

Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced Montana’s unemployment rate in August was below 3 percent for the 22nd consecutive month, bucking national trends as the country’s unemployment rate rose to 3.8 percent in August. Montanans have created more than 8,600 jobs in the first eight months of 2023 and nearly 40,000 jobs since Gianforte took office in January 2021. “Despite national headwinds

The Montana Department of Transportation would like to announce and invite the public to comment on a proposal to reconstruct about seven miles of Montana Highway 13, 26 miles south of Scobey. The project begins at the intersection with County Road 17-2040 near mile marker 25, and extends north, ending near mile marker 32. Proposed work includes reconstructing and widening the roadway surface,

Montana children with learning disabilities could get a boost thanks to new research at Montana State University that seeks to better understand how visual hand gestures can aid in communications in the classroom and home. The project, which started in August and is funded with $67,000 from Montana INBRE, is a collaboration between researchers in MSU’s Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering,

National Falls Prevention Week took place on Sept. 18-22, and serves as an ideal opportunity for Montanans to consider what factors increase their risk of falling and what actions they can take to mitigate those risks. Department of Public Health and Human Services officials report that nearly one in three Montanans aged 65 and older have reported falling at least once in the past 12 months.

During the past legislative session, the Montana Taxpayers Association was excited to support the Gianforte administration’s ideas that improved Montana’s tax systems and provided tax relief. We look forward to continuing that working relationship. However, unless the administration decides soon on the level of the state’s property tax collections, when tax bills go out this coming November,