Richland Federal Credit Union held their 84th annual business meeting Tuesday, April 16, at the Saint Matthews Center in Sidney. Members heard reports from president Beth Redlin, CEO Korey Hagan, operations and accounting manager Sharon Roth and vice president of lending Corliss Nelson. Among the topics highlighted was the $300,000 bonus dividend for 2023 distributed in March of this year.

Over 100 law enforcement officials, criminal prosecutors, advocacy groups, public health officials and private industry leaders joined Attorney General Austin Knudsen recently in Bozeman to discuss efforts and effective strategies to combat human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in Montana. The event, held April 18, was the fourth anti-human trafficking symposium Knudsen has hosted

The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday adopted a long-awaited rule that aims to put conservation initiatives “on equal footing” with oil and gas leasing, grazing and other commercial uses of federal land. The rule “combines our ongoing work with a vision for conservation to help us manage lands into the 21st century,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a video announcing the

The BLM finalized the Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process rule which significantly increases royalties, rates, minimum bids and costs for oil and gas producers on federal lands. In particular, it significantly increases bonding for producers which will have a major negative impact on small producers. Many of the provisions in the new rule are the result of the Democrats Inflation Reduction

A Brockton woman has admitted to stealing a firearm and a vehicle in a residential burglary on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said Thursday, April 23. The defendant, Avis Big Track, 32, pleaded guilty on April 24 to burglary. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Court documents allege that on Sept.