SNAP which used to be called the Food Stamp Program is designed to help low-income people and families pay for groceries and starting next Tuesday October 1st new maximum benefit amounts for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will kick in.
Most abortion clinics in Montana will have to comply with new licensure requirements adopted by the state health department or risk shutdown. A two-month countdown has begun for clinics to make necessary changes and apply for the license created and made mandatory through House Bill 937 from the 2023 Legislature.
Yellowstone National Park ’s geothermal pool named Morning Glory has changed color due to the volume of debris thrown in by visitors. According to park historians and former employees the once-jet blue water of the pool has been affected by coins trash and rocks.
Montana ranks as the fourth least regulated state in the nation behind North Dakota South Dakota and Idaho according to a Mercatus Center at George Mason University report. The nationally recognized institution says Montana is only one of two states in the nation where wage growth outpaced inflation since 2020.
The U.S. Department of Education will be responding to Montana’s Office of Public Instruction following an audit which questioned the department’s management of $67.5 million in federal money. It is in the process of uploading the submission to its audit resolution system.
Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks will upgrade a user-created shooting area and build a more formal and safe shooting range on a portion of 86.4 acres of state trust land near Logan. Recreational shooters have used the state trust land near Logan for years.
An upgrade to Caras Park river access at Brennan’s Wave in Missoula will create a new terrace system to increase accessibility add space for taking in the view and improve river health over the next several months. Construction for the $1.6 million project started this week.
The Gros Ventre tribe in Northern Montana continues the fight to bring the remains home of their stolen children who died at boarding school over 100 years ago. The Fort Belknap Reservation recently welcomed the remains of three teens from the Carlisle Boarding School in Pennsylvania.
