The ninth annual Rez Summer Slam street basketball tournament is scheduled for Aug. 1-2 in Wolf Point. To register for the three-onthree tournament, go to https:// www.tourneymachine.com/. Divisions are (based on 2026-2027 school year) first/second grade (boys’ and girls’ combined), third/ fourth grade boys, third/ fourth grade girls, fifth/ sixth grade boys, fifth/sixth grade girls, seventh/eighth

Several area athletes fared well in track events during the Big Sky State Games during the weekend. Wolf Point’s Sierra Summers finished first in the 5000-meter run with a time of 20:13.98 and second in the 200-meter dash at 34.15 seconds. She was the winner in the 400 with a time of 1:12.95, in the 800 with a time of 2:45.82 and in the 1500 at 5:34.94. She competed in the women’s 19-29 age

Tayler Scherr didn’t head into the weekend expecting to clear out her home office. But when a surprise batch of freshly hatched chicks scampered across her path the morning of July 10, everything changed. Scherr raises dozens of chickens and a handful of ducks on her ranch outside Glendive in eastern Montana. The flock includes roosters roaming freely among the hens, so chicks are bound to happen.

Congressman Troy Downing’s bill, H.R. 726, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025, passed the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, July 15. The legislation updates the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to provide the Crow Tribe with greater flexibility to develop water infrastructure and keep long-overdue projects on the reservation moving forward.

By James Walling The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Cultural Preservation Department, staffed by Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, is hosting a Carlisle Boarding School Repatriation Awareness Walk July 31 to mark the return of the remains of Christine Redstone, Peter Howe and Richard Morgan to the reservation. The walk will begin at 7 a.m. at Porcupine Creek in Nashua at the western

A popular Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 6 program that allows kids and their friends or families to check out free fishing rods and tackle is in full swing again this year. In time for summer fishing, FWP staff has restocked and maintained more than 350 fishing rods in most of the 40 different location sites across Montana’s Hi-Line. The “Kids to Fish” program lets anglers check

tling camp to fully enjoy the camping experience. Sleep in. Read a book in the shade of a tree. Head to a nearby hiking trail or scenic vista. Be sure to pick the right campground for your base. A dusty facility next to a highway or a site littered with trash is no place to spend even one day. Look for campgrounds with hiking and bicycling trails, swimming and boating lakes, or fishing and kayaking