Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 16 other state attorneys general joined a lawsuit last week against the Biden administration’s rules that they sayd threaten the long-held American tradition of private firearms assembly and put the livelihood of thousands of Americans at risk. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rulemaking would regulate unfinished, non-functional

Bozeman-area nonprofit Hopa Mountain is teaming with organizations around the state to host a series of Summer Reading Programs in an effort to support families and children as they read their way to greater success in school this fall. Working in partnership with Hopa Mountain’s Story-Makers Teams at Culbertson Public Library, Froid Public Library, Fort Peck Tribes HPDP Wellness Program, James

Republicans would be favored to win 72 seats.” Stusek, on the other hand, said the Democratic approach to urban districts disregards the functional compactness criterion. “It didn’t seem that competition was the primary goal, it seemed that proportionality was the primary goal,” he said of the Democratic proposals. “There are 67 Republicans in the state House — to assume that

Organizers Julie Christian and Leslie Berge hosted the first Wadopana Celebration in Wolf Point since 2019 over three days August 5-7, with a camping day opening the festivities August 4, Christian told the Northern Plains Independent that the 2020 event was canceled due to the pandemic. The 2021 event was canceled due to the death of longtime organizer Sandra Lilley. A memorial breakfast was

Representatives from the Assiniboine Sioux Rural Water Supply System and Dry Prairie Rural Water had the opportunity to host an informational meeting and tour with high-level representatives from the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary of Water and Science Tanya Trujillo and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton, as well as numerous regional office and

attend the virtual WREP workshop on Aug. 17, at 1 p.m. Eastern. Contact Lisa McCauley at lisa.mccauley@ usda.gov for the login information. The webinar will be recorded and available for any partners unable to attend. WREP is part of the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, which is a Farm Bill conservation program. Through WREP, states, local units of government, non-governmental organizations