The Fort Peck Tribes is one of four tribes in Montana that will receive a grant from the Montana Highway Administration for road safety. The Montana Highway Administration will award the Fort Peck Tribes $2,500 to update an existing transportation safety plan and $200,000 for safety improvement to BIA Route 1. Tribal chairman Floyd Azure said the funds were certainly needed to improve the

Roosevelt County commissioners approved during their weekly meeting to conduct a public hearing regarding abandoning Road 2058. The meeting to hear input has been scheduled for March 7 starting at 6:30 p.m. in the county building in Culbertson. Commissioners will make their decision on a later date. Landowner Lynn Labatte is requesting that the road is ruled abandoned. During a meeting

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire departments Feb. 6-12. All those cited or arrested are presumed innocent.) February 7 Sam Birdtail Sr., 34, male, 100 block of East Front Street, protection of government officials and employees, tribal court. February 8 Natasha Kemp, 42, female, 300 block of Custer Street, partner/family

( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of persons incarcerated at the jail and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center included: Wilbert Ackerman, 32, Frazer, hold for Fort Peck Tribes. James Allen, 28, Lame Deer, hold for other

A Poplar man who admitted to hitting a police officer in the head with a hammer as law enforcement was responding to an assault at his home was sentenced today to 38 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Nolan James Hendrickson, 34, pleaded guilty in September 2022 to assault with a dangerous weapon. Chief U.S. District