Gasoline prices are around $3 gallon or higher across the region. AAA reports the national average is at $3.04 per gallon with Montana’s coming in about 13¢ lower. MTN News reports that estimate is lower than the average right now but more than a dollar higher than one year ago. College affordability weighs on the minds of parents and st...
Moisture Coming To Montana This Week
A moist Pacific weather system is poised to make its way into Montana over the next few days bringing as much as two inches of badly needed moisture to large portions of the state that desperately need it. Farmers and ranchers all across Montana are anxiously looking to the skies hoping what has thus far been an unusually dry year will make a ...
Montana State Prison Minimizes Dairy Program
Darigold canceled its 30-year contract with the Montana State Prison last year forcing the prison work program to sell off about 270 cows in mid-December. Montana Correctional Enterprises had to scale down its dairy program to about 70 enough to produce milk to self-sustain the Department of Correction’s facilities around the state. A re...
Child Aid For Hungry Montana Children Begins This Week
The 10,000th veteran in the state received a Moderna vaccine shot Wednesday. 54-year-old veteran Kent Stewart who spent time in both the Army and the Marines during his 16-year military career received his COVID-19 vaccine from the Montana Veterans Administration Health Care System at the David J. Thatcher VA Clinic. To reach 10,000 was no sma...
Havre
Alyvia Hammond, HavreAlyvia is a 3rd grader. She has a heart of gold and wanted to do something to support the nurses. She made bracelets and sold them at her mom’s store to buy coffee gift cards for the nurses.Amber Spring, HavreCoordinated community discussions on effects of COVID, mental health, delivered meals for front line health care pe...