Medicaid, the joint federal- state health care program for low-income Americans, opens the door to services such as paying for help to prepare meals or shower safely. But applying for and obtaining that coverage can take weeks or months, leaving aging people in a dangerous limbo: too vulnerable to live at home without assistance, but too healthy to merit a hospital or nursing home bed. Montana

Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Montanans will vote on whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Constitutional Initiative 128, advanced by a group called Montanans Securing Reproductive Rights, would create a new section of the Montanan Constitution establishing “a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including

Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income payments for more than 72.5 million Americans will increase 2.5 percent in 2025, the Social Security Administration announced last week. On average, Social Security retirement benefits will increase by about $50 per month starting in January. Over the last decade the cost-of-living adjustment increase has averaged about 2.6 percent. The

Wild Calf Coffee’s Sara Harmon told the Community News that the specialty roasting company is expanding its reach into Cenex stores. Harmon said Wild Calf is now a preferred vendor and is available at Cenex in Fairview and Ray, N.D., as well as area stores and cafes throughout the region. A new sit-down, drivethrough coffee shop at the Cenex store in Jamestown, N.D., is slated to open