Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen announced last week the state has a new “I voted” sticker. The sticker will be available for the 2026 election cycle, a press release said. It’s red, white and blue and has an image of the state, as well as mountains. It came from a collaboration with the Montana Election Team, which is made up of elected officials across the state. The sticker

Anthony Douglas Miller was sentenced to three years with the Montana Department of Corrections during a district court hearing in front of Judge Benjamin Fosland on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Miller didn’t receive a fine and was given credit for 196 days of time served. Miller originally received a three-year deferred sentence in December for criminal possession of dangerous drugs. Since that time,

Area law enforcement responded to a report of an individual possibly being hit by a train on Thursday, Feb. 26. No victim was found by authorities. Lewis Matthews, chief of police for the Fort Peck Tribes Department of Law and Justice, said video shows that a person wearing a white coat got out of the way fast enough to avoid being hit by the train.

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 149 calls from Feb. 23 through March 1. The calls included the following: Feb. 23 Deputies received a report of a stolen laptop from the school in Tioga, N.D. A trace provided an IP address that the laptop was in Wolf Point. Deputies forwarded the report to tribal prosecutors. The case is still under investigation. Feb. 24 Doing a patrol

Joshua Lee Overman is facing three charges, including one felony, in district court. The felony charge is criminal possession of dangerous drugs. Misdemeanor charges are criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and driving a motor vehicle while privilege to do so is suspended or revoked, second offense. According to court documents, Overman was stopped for speeding and not having a functional

Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke announced Monday, March 2, that he will retire at the end of his current term in Congress and will not seek re-election. “I have made the decision to leave office at the end of my fourth term and not seek re-election,” Zinke said in his announcement. “I do not take this decision lightly and have informed President Trump, the governor and senior leadership of

A proposal has been submitted to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a 645-mile pipeline project, slated to pass through multiple counties in Northeast Montana. According to the Billings Gazette, the pipeline would carry more than half a million barrels of Canadian crude oil per day through parts of the region for Bridger Pipeline, based in Casper, Wyo. Roosevelt County Commissioner

Montana is in many ways a land of two halves: a western Montana of snow-capped mountains and national forests joined in political unity with an eastern Montana of wide-open plains and flatland agriculture. It’s a time-honored divide: peaks versus plains, Missoula versus Miles City, Flathead versus Fort Peck lakes. But where exactly is the dividing line? As it turns out, there’s no clear