A new research laboratory recently opened on the University of Montana campus to study the connection between hearing loss and brain function as people age. The Brain, Ear, and Aging Research (BEAR) Lab launched this fall in the basement of Curry Health Center, where the School of Speech, Language, Hearing and Occupational Sciences is housed. Dr. Anoop Basavanahalli Jagadeesh, director

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has “assumed jurisdiction” of three American Prairie grazing rights cases, according to a memo obtained by the Western Ag Network. The three cases deal with bison grazing on federal land in Phillips County. The appeals had previously been handled by the Bureau of Land Management and have been in that process for more than three years. In September, Montana

High winds ripped across Montana on Wednesday and early Thursday, knocking out power lines, shutting down roads and generally causing havoc. Gusts nearing 100 miles per hour battered the state, according to a National Weather Service report. Thousands across the state lost power, including more than 30,000 people in the Flathead Valley. On Thursday morning, NorthWestern Energy’s outage

Prosecutors in the Montana Attorney General’s Office filed official misconduct charges against Sen. Jason Ellsworth last week for acting outside the scope of his lawful authority as a public servant and requested that the court suspend him from office pending final judgment. The charges follow a Montana Division of Criminal Investigation investigation launched in February after a referral from