Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., praised the passing of the Sgt. First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 during a media conference call last week. “The last few days have been difficult to say the least,” Tester said during the call. “But we fought and fought and fought.” Last month, the PACT Act passed the Senate by an overwhelming majority

The area, through Nemont, will benefit through the USDA’s Reconnect grants for broadband expansion. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has announced that Nemont is a recipient of a $24.5 million grant to improve service in Roosevelt County, Valley County and the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The impact includes 1,068 people, 25 businesses and 282 farms. In addition, Reservation Telephone Cooperative

A back to school barbecue bash is planned at Brockton School Aug. 11. Students will receive a backpack and school supplies. There will also be a drawing for prizes for parents and students. The event will run from 4-7 p.m. A JOM meeting is set for 5 p.m., to be followed by an athletic meeting at 6 p.m.

The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act introduced by U.S. Senator Jon Tester secured $3,343,149.60 for critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs to several Montana land ports of entry along the northern border, according to an Aug. 8 press release. “Montanans rely on our land ports of entry for everything from trade to travel, and they’ve long been in need of an upgrade,”

While the Missouri River basin has seen improved runoff for two consecutive months, it is not enough to overcome the long-term drought persisting in much of the basin. July runoff in the Missouri River basin above Sioux City, Iowa, was 3.2 million acrefeet, which is 98 percent of average and 0.7 MAF more than was forecast last month. This has led to an annual runoff forecast of 20.6 MAF, which

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