RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) season spans about six months each year, from November through March. Most of the time RSV causes a mild, cold-like illness, but it can also cause severe illness such as: • Bronchiolitis (inflammation of the small airways in the lung) • Pneumonia (infection of the lungs) Two to three out of every 100 infants under six months are hospitalized with RSV

oll First Quarter Seniors Tavian Bell,* Jayla Big Talk,* Cole Boysun,* Lauren Rodenberg,* Navella Weeks, Richard Campbell, Marley Moran, Teagan Williams, Phelanee Brown, Elliauna Ryan, Kasey Reed, Sean Hamilton, Joseph White Snow, Trina Hutchinson, Riley Schwarzrock, Mackeira Schindler, Gabriel Keiser and Samual Boysun. Juniors Maya Deserly,* Nora Hansen,* Thomas Moudree,* Jeina Reum,* Kailayla

Solar flares on Tuesday and Wednesday brought the northern lights all across the central states, from Montana to Minnesota and Iowa, with bright red hues high into the sky. Folks who stayed up after 10 were privileged to see a real light exhibition in the heavens. A touch of snow came on the weekend. Area churches are participating in collecting Operation Christmas Child boxes for Samaritan’s

Major tax legislation passed by the 2025 Legislature swung tax bills dramatically for most Montana homeowners this year, pulling bills down for many and raising them for others. Now, new rules proposed by the department aim to flesh out the details around a second phase of the legislation — a second-home tax that will take effect next year in an effort to provide further relief to homes being

Slaughterhouses and butchers used to be scattered throughout the United States, numbering about 10,000 in 1967. Only about 3,000 remain and about 85 percent of the American meatpacking industry is controlled by four companies: JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill and Smithfield. The other 20 percent of that market share is held in part by small and very small meat producers scattered across the country,

Technology may have been partly responsible for the data breach that may have exposed more than 460,000 Montanans financial and health information, and technology may be part of the answer to keeping compromised information safe, according to the Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance. In response to a massive information breach by Montana Blue Cross-Blue Shield, announced publicly