Saturday seemed like the last day for fall work and farmers were busy hauling bales off the fields, putting equipment into sheds and doing the winterizing maintenance needed. It was a day for washing windows, painting fences, mowing road edges in preparation for winter, and bringing in produce. Lustre Christian High School hosted the North Country volleyball team in the afternoon, losing its match.

not into micro-managing,” he said. Buckles said a challenge for the tribes is fighting for federal funding. B.J. Johnson said his first term on the board has been a learning experience. He’s a proponent of economic development. He noted investments such as the tribal farm, a casino and a processing plant. He said it’s important for board members to be serving every day. Rita Weeks

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Thursday, Oct. 9, to limit the number of white-tailed doe tags available for hunters in Region 6 in northeast Montana because of outbreaks of a hemorrhagic virus that is killing deer in pockets across the state but particularly so along the Milk River. Commission Chair Lesley Robinson, representing Region 6, said landowners in the area had already

Although there were national concerns regarding if Essential Air Service flights were going to continue during the government shutdown, Cape Air officials provided a positive message last week. Cape Air serves five eastern Montana communities — Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Sidney and Wolf Point — through Essential Air Service funding. Essential Air Service was established in 1978 to provide

The trials for Abrianne Deserly and Calvin Lester Jr., who are facing second degree murder charges related to a death that occurred in Wolf Point on Feb. 26, has been continued until Jan. 6. The jury trial will take place in Great Falls. The plea agreement/notice of intent to proceed deadline is Dec. 23. The motion is to continued was unopposed. If convicted, Deserly and Lester face a maximum

( Publisher’s Note: The following blotter includes the activities of the Wolf Point police and fire department Oct. 6-12. All those cited or arrested are presumed innocent.) Oct. 9 Fourteen-year-old male, 200 block of Sixth Avenue South, disorderly conduct, tribal court. Sixteen-year-old male, 200 block of Sixth Avenue South, disorderly conduct, tribal court. Fifteen-year-old male,

A second nonpartisan judicial elections ballot initiative received the OK of Montana’s attorney general Oct. 9, but with the same edits that triggered a lawsuit against the AG last week. Constitutional Initiative 132 would amend the state Constitution to ensure that all judicial elections are nonpartisan. The push follows several failed attempts by state Republican lawmakers in the 2025 Legislature