The Froid Town Council held their regular meeting March 21. Mayor Sheri Crain and council members Gale Strandlund, Gregg Labatte, Tyler Harris and Laurie Young were in attendance, as was clerk LeAnn Johnson. Area resident and business owner Leah Meeker addressed the council during non-agenda discussion time. She said the summer tournaments sponsored by Meeker and her husband last year are again

If Democrats regain political power in Montana in the future, it’d be good to have gun rights soundly secured in the Montana Constitution. That’s the argument Rep. Braxton Mitchell, R-Columbia Falls, made Wednesday, March 15, with a supermajority of Republicans in control of the Montana Legislature. In the House Judiciary Committee, Mitchell argued in favor of a bill that would ask voters

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced Montana’s unemployment rate declined to 2.5 percent in January, matching the record low set in the governor’s second year in office, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. Montana’s unemployment rate in January is the fourth lowest in the nation. “Hardworking Montanans