A federal judge has halted the Biden administration’s moratorium on federal oil and gas leasing and drilling permits that threatened the livelihoods of rural Montana families and would have cost the state millions in lost tax revenue. U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana Terry Doughty issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the provisions of President Biden’s

The trial for Richard Lamar Rutledge of Culbertson is being pushed back again. In March, the trial was postponed from March to July. Rutledge is facing two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of incest. Since that postponement, Rutledge’s representation has changed. He no longer has public defenders, but instead his family is paying Mary Zemyan to serve as his attorney.

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced that Montana Rural Health Clinics will receive $5.6 million in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funding as a result of the American Rescue Plan to increase COVID-19 testing and to further mitigate its effects on rural communities. Montana is home to 60 rural health clinics across the state — all of which provide life-saving care to underserved

As part of his efforts to address the shortage of medical professionals in Montana highlighted most recently by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is introducing the bipartisan Rural Physician Workforce Production Act to bring more doctors to rural areas. “The shortage of doctors in rural America threatens the future of our frontier communities,” Tester said. “Folks

More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the U.S. than all other cancers combined. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that people of every age, race and gender are affected by the disease. Simply put, if you have skin, you can get skin cancer. However, some people are at higher risk for the disease than others. Understanding the factors contributing to your chances of developing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $500,000 in supplemental funding to Great Northern Development Corporation to clean up and redevelop contaminated brownfield properties in eastern Montana. GNDC is one of 27 awardees nationwide that has demonstrated success in using previously awarded Brownfields Revolving Loan Funding grants to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites.