Following an injunction from the Western District of Louisiana, the Bureau of Land Management Montana/ Dakotas State Office conducted a lease sale offering 23 parcels totaling 3,405.8 acres in Montana and North Dakota last week. Nineteen parcels were sold for a total of $7,354,562. Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation of Denver, Colo., was the highest bidder, with a total bonus bid of $2,346,485,50

The Rock Creek Resort in Red Lodge escaped the record floodwaters in June and will host the 49th annual Montana History Conference Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. The Historical Society’s conference theme, “To Wonderland and Beyond” commemorates the 150th anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone National Park and includes lecture sessions, workshops, and tours on the history of Yellowstone and

The Montana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, June 29, that state legislators infringed on authority granted to higher education officials by the state Constitution by passing a law last year allowing individuals to carry open or concealed firearms on university and college campuses. The unanimous decision struck down specific provisions of House Bill 102, which supporters had dubbed Montana’s

Kaden Sheridan felt anxious to go to class after he went through a four-hour lockdown his freshman year of high school when a student dropped a loaded handgun magazine on campus. At the time, Sheridan worried about his brother, also in school. No one knew what the owner of the weapon had been planning in Missoula at the time, Sheridan said, but he later experienced panic attacks about a

A group of Republican senators, including U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., have introduced a bill aimed to help middle class families survive and save despite skyrocketing inflation economic conditions. “From prices at the grocery store to the gas pump, President Biden’s economy is bankrupting Montana families and making it hard to plan for the future, or even tomorrow,” Daines said in

Ten years ago, the number of Apsáalooke (Crow language) speakers was like many indigenous languages, endangered and risking extinction as fewer and fewer spoke it. Now, as the Crow Language Consortium prepares for its 10th annual summer institute where Apsáalooke teachers are trained and new speakers learn, the Native nation in south central Montana, which is also home to Little Bighorn Battlefield,

The Family Dollar/Dollar Tree combination store will reopen on Monday, July 11, in Wolf Point. Store manager Jim Dye said he anticipates store hours to be from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. The east side of the store will be the Family Dollar section and feature a good variety of food items. The west side will be the Dollar Tree section with many $1.25 items.

Fort Peck Community College was recently awarded the Tribal Practices for Wellness in Indian Country Grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. FPCC is one of 30 AI/ AN community serving organizations from across the nation to receive this competitive award. Tribal Practices for Wellness in Indian Country is a cooperative agreement Notice of Funding Opportunity supported by the

Elk hunters interested in signing up for an opportunity to hunt cow elk on private lands enrolled in Elk Hunting Access agreements can do so now through Aug 1. The resulting EHA public hunter list will be randomized with hunters contacted sequentially starting at the top of the list. This email contact will include instructions for timely next steps the hunter needs to take to participate in the

Three student athletes from Wolf Point, who compete for Dickinson State University’s track program, have earned selection as North Star Athletic Association’s academic scholar-athletes for the 2021-2022 season. Jewel Olson qualified for the honor in women’s track. Earning selection for men’s track were Nick Page and Kaholo Toaves. To be eligible for the NSAA Academic Scholar-Athlete,