The Agriculture Development Council will meet on Thursday, June 9, beginning at 1 p.m. at the Montana Department of Agriculture (302 N. Roberts) in Helena to review Montana Student Loan Assistance Program applications and Growth Through Agriculture Program priorities for the year ahead. For more information or to request information to join the meeting virtually, contact Dani Jones at 406-444-2402

The Wolf Point Yellow Jackets’ American Legion team dropped two games to the Glendive Blue Devils on Wednesday, June 1. “We didn’t really start the first game off real well. We drop that game 13-3,” Wolf Point Coach Scott Vandall said. “We just had one bad inning that game and couldn’t get things going.” In the second game, the Yellow Jackets played a whole lot better but lost

Froid/Lake players Ashdyn Hobbs, Brent Stentoft and Connor Huft played solid roles in the Blue team’s 34-28 comeback win over the Red team in the six-man All-Star football game on Friday, June 3. Hobbs caught a three-yard touchdown pass from Bridger’s Chance Goltz for the score with only 18 seconds left. The Red team led by a 22-0 margin at one part of the game played in Custer. Blue

Last week, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks discovered what amounts to a clerical error in distributing some nonresident elk licenses. About 1,200 nonresident combination licenses were erroneously printed and mailed to nonresident hunters who had successfully drawn a license but elected to return them for a refund when they didn’t draw their chosen permit. The licenses erroneously mailed

Although the weather wasn’t ideal for outdoor recreation, aquatic invasive species stations around the state conducted more than 2,000 inspections over the Memorial Day weekend. So far this year, FWP and its partners have inspected 14,000 watercraft, 21 of which were mussel- fouled. One of those detections happened Saturday when a mussel-fouled boat was intercepted at Wibaux. The boat was a

Upon acquisition of First Community Bank, Opportunity Bank expanded into the communities of Culbertson, Froid, Glasgow, Ashland, Hinsdale and Three Forks. Opportunity Bank officials report these communities have all seen external signs changed, however, the focus is still on strong customer relationships and quality banking products and services with the same people working inside. Opportunity

Aurora, a leader in self-driving vehicle technology, has announced that it will build a 78,000-square-foot facility in Bozeman at the Montana State University Innovation Campus. The modern, two-story facility will include research and development laboratories, a world-class manufacturing space and clean room facility, and more. In collaboration with MSU, Aurora also plans to open a new, state-ofthe-