After nearly three months of waiting for typical winter weather, cool temperatures and precipitation finally arrived during April in Montana. Prior to April, northwest Montana had been the largest recipient of precipitation this water year. “Weather patterns shifted last month, and April precipitation was slightly below normal in northwest Montana but well above normal in southcentral and

Montana supporters and opponents of abortion rights reacted strongly to the leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision published Monday indicating that a majority of the court’s members support overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark federal case legalizing abortion. An official ruling is not expected until late June. In protests around the state on Tuesday, May 3, Montanans rallied for reproductive

Fort Peck Summer Theatre Opens Season With Forever Plaid Forever Plaid is a musical homage to the close-harmony singing groups that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. The story follows a quartet of highschool chums in their cherry red ’54 Mercury as they share their earnest dreams of recording an album and appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show. Having been performed

Lustre’s boys scored 30 points and Lustre’s girls accounted for six points during the Gene Nelson Memorial Invitational in Wolf Point on Friday, May 6. Braden Ewing earned firstplace honors in the triple jump with a best of 40-02. The junior finished fourth in the 200 at 24.42 seconds and placed fifth in the long jump at 18-4. Elijah Lenihan cleared 5-4 for third place in the high jump.

May is membership month at the Montana Farm Bureau, and the state’s largest general agricultural organization has planned a month of activities both recognizing and recruiting members. “The greatest advocates for Montana agriculture are Montana Farm Bureau’s volunteer members,” said MFBF President Cyndi Johnson. “They spend an incredible amount of time and energy educating the next

The Montana Farmers Union Foundation currently is accepting applications for its grant funding for the first time. The MFU Foundation has funded projects when approached in the past. Now that the endowment has grown, the foundation has created a formal grant application process. The foundation will continue to award annual scholarships in addition to the grants. “This is a big step for

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced last week that the state of Montana will receive $2.25 million for Tribal irrigation and power projects as part of his bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The funds will go toward water infrastructure and power projects on the Fort Peck and Flathead Indian Reservations. Tester negotiated the IIJA and helped pass it into law last year, and

Regarding their approach to controlling drugs in the county, Nygard pointed to working with other agencies including tribes, state, federal and cities. “You have to become one,” he said. Taking part in trainings is also important. Nygard said that an individual from DCI told him that Roosevelt County hasn’t invited them to come and help fight the drug problem. “They will help you clean