Tuesday Night Golf League As of June 28 Northern Prairie 225.5 Arnie’s Army 217.0 Four Little Indians 214.0 Fox Ford 212.5 In the Rough 203.0 Opportunity Bank 199.5 Curtiss Farm & Auto 197.5 One Under 192.0 Hackers 170.5 New Guys 168.5 Low Score: Mike Fox, 40 Low Net: Dave Williams, Jeff Thomas, 31 Eagles: Mike Fox on the 471-yard par 5, hole #18

The 41st Swank Variety Plot Tour on Monday, July 11, will take place at the Swank farm north of Poplar. Introductions and county presentations will begin at 5 p.m. at the Swank family farm, with the tour starting at 5:15 pm at the test plots Dr. Chengci Chen from the MSU Eastern Agriculture Research Center in Sidney will lead the introduction to wheat plots and field research trials at the EARC

Following an injunction from the Western District of Louisiana, the Bureau of Land Management Montana/ Dakotas State Office conducted a lease sale offering 23 parcels totaling 3,405.8 acres in Montana and North Dakota last week. Nineteen parcels were sold for a total of $7,354,562. Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation of Denver, Colo., was the highest bidder, with a total bonus bid of $2,346,485,50

The Rock Creek Resort in Red Lodge escaped the record floodwaters in June and will host the 49th annual Montana History Conference Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. The Historical Society’s conference theme, “To Wonderland and Beyond” commemorates the 150th anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone National Park and includes lecture sessions, workshops, and tours on the history of Yellowstone and

The Montana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, June 29, that state legislators infringed on authority granted to higher education officials by the state Constitution by passing a law last year allowing individuals to carry open or concealed firearms on university and college campuses. The unanimous decision struck down specific provisions of House Bill 102, which supporters had dubbed Montana’s

Kaden Sheridan felt anxious to go to class after he went through a four-hour lockdown his freshman year of high school when a student dropped a loaded handgun magazine on campus. At the time, Sheridan worried about his brother, also in school. No one knew what the owner of the weapon had been planning in Missoula at the time, Sheridan said, but he later experienced panic attacks about a