On Nov. 30, Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Michael McMahon struck down provisions of Montana’s new constitutional carry law that apply to college campuses, ruling that the law violates the constitutional authority of the Montana Board of Regents. The board filed the lawsuit against the state in May. In his order, issued shortly after the latest round of oral arguments in the case,

Montana’s congressional delegation members were on oppose side of the fence when votes came regarding government funding and a vaccine mandate last week. A group of Senate Republicans threatened to delay passage of the continuing budget resolution unless the Biden administration’s rule requiring businesses with 100 or more employees was eliminated. A vote to prohibit the use of federal

Taylor Reese of Wolf Point was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Reese was initiated at University of Montana. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership. Graduate

One of the most common observations made by early European explorers in Montana was the immense buffalo herds and the Native people who hunted and used the huge animals. A 2016 article in the Intermountain Journal of Sciences by James A. Bailey chronicles the observations. The Crows were reported to kill “upwards of a thousand” bison in a day in 1824; meanwhile George Catlin recorded 500

The deceased individual found following a motor home fire in Glendive Nov. 21 has been identified as former Wolf Point resident, Loren “Bruce” Houg. A body was found in the rubble of a motor home fire Nov. 21 afternoon at the Bridge View mobile home park. Dawson County Coroner-Tyler Silha confirmed on Monday that the deceased was Houg, 58, of Glendive. Silha said as the result of the