The services that help make Montana State University a home away from home for American Indian and Alaska Native students will soon expand, MSU officials announced today. The Department of Native American Studies and its American Indian Alaska Native Student Success Services will increase the services that help make MSU comfortable for Indigenous students, according to Walter Fleming head of

( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of persons incarcerated at the jail and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center included: Elishia Brady, 24, Bainville, partner/family member assault. Michael Burke, 42, Browning, hold for other

Most parents now have probably heard of JUUL, but how about Puff Bar? The new National Youth Tobacco Survey shows that Puff Bar has overtaken JUUL and other brands as the most popular type of e-cigarette. Like many e-cigarette products, Puff Bar comes in kid-friendly candy flavors. A key difference, though, is that Puff Bar is a disposable product. Kids use one and throw it away. Use of disposable

lated deaths in the county. There have been 326 recovered cases and 348 cumulative cases. Phillips County had 44 active cases as of Wednesday, Jan. 19. There have been 880 recovered cases and 27 COVID-related deaths. For Richland County, there were 17 active cases and 2,178 recovered cases as of Monday, Jan. 24. Total COVID-related deaths are 30. There have been 2,225 total cases.

While marijuana became legal for adults to purchase in Montana on New Year’s Day, a key federal agency has confirmed a fact underreported in coverage of the state’s new marijuana program: It remains illegal under federal law for individuals to simultaneously possess marijuana or marijuana products and firearms, and penalties for violating that law are severe. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol,