Area residents dealing with diabetics and other medical challenges will benefit from a new federal prescription plan. Through the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare is able to negotiate drug prices on behalf of patients for 10 drugs. The drugs include insulin and Jardiance, an anti-diabetic medication used to improve glucose control in people with type 2 diabetes. According to the Montana Department

Roosevelt County and Richland County are each supportive of a request by the Montana Association of Counties to receive an interpretation of laws related to property tax levies. The State of Montana levies 95 mills annually and 40 of the mills go toward the equalization of school funding. Roosevelt County Commissioner Gordon Oelkers explains that counties can increase the value of mills

Lt. Lawrence Irwin retired from the Montana Highway Patrol on May 31, after 31 and a half years of service to the Patrol. His initial station assignment was Wolf Point. He was promoted to sergeant on Jan. 29, 2000, and was the Wolf Point detachment commander. In April of 2002, he transferred to Helena to work on the executive protection detail. He transferred to the Helena Detachment commander

HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of nine attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to take up the social-media censorship case of O’Handley v. Weber and protect Americans’ right to free speech. The attorneys general filed a brief Friday, Aug. 25, in support of Rogan O’Handley, a political commentator who was censored on