The Montana Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons group heard from a regional outreach program coordinator during a conference call last week. Deidre Aanstad, MMIP regional outreach program coordinator, has a history of being a prosecutor in Minnesota for 20 years where she focused on child abuse, domestic violence and homicide cases in Indian Country. Her focus is to address unsolved

National Weather Service meteorologists Nick Vertz of Billings and Jacob Zanker of Glasgow provided information during a weather-ready monthly briefing for eastern Montana and northern Wyoming last week. Zanker noted that due to the lack of precipitation during the past 30 days, the areas along the Canadian border are the most lacking for moisture. A notable weather event during the early part

During a tele townhall call with Montana residents last week, U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont, stressed his dedication of reducing the federal deficit and cutting spending. Rosendale noted the $33 trillion federal deficit. He said the government brings in $5 trillion each year and spends $7 trillion. “The math is simple folks,” Rosendale said. “We can’t continue kicking the can down

National Newspaper Week is being celebrated for the 82nd annual year. The dates of recognition this year are Oct. 2-8. Few communities should know better than our own area when it comes to understanding the importance of newspapers. This newspaper’s publisher and owner, Darla Downs, spent countless hours to make sure state statute was followed regarding the county attorney’s election. Her

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing in recent years about the death of local newspapers, those bastions of democracy and chroniclers of community. While the loss of any newspaper hurts the people they serve, residents of rural areas and small towns are hit especially hard when a newspaper shuts down. When a local newspaper closes, citizens lose impartial news and information about town and

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has recently received questions on Montana’s Stream Access Law and how it is applied across the state. For landowners and recreationists alike, it’s important to know about the law and understand how it applies to private land and water-based recreation. “The public has a right to enjoy water-based recreation on rivers and streams in Montana below the high-water

Ahead of fall public meetings, the Draft Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir System Annual Operating Plan for the 2023-2024 runoff season is now available for public comment. The Missouri River Water Management Division has made the draft 2023-2024 Annual Operating Plan available at: https:// www.nwd.usace.army.mil/ MRWM/Public-Meetings/. The public comment period on the draft plan will close

A Montana man was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 26, to six years in prison on several felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting law enforcement, for his involvement in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Isaac Steve Sturgeon, 34, of Dillon, on Jan. 6, 2021, joined the mob on the Capitol grounds, eventually climbing through the inaugural stage scaffolding up to where police