Author: Brian Bennett

The Flathead County Community Health Center will soon receive a little more than $60,000 in grant funding. The money will be used toward local coronavirus screening and testing acquiring medical supplies and boosting telehealth capacity. It is provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Hum...

Montana State University is offering undergraduate students the chance to take all of this spring semester’s classes pass-fail while they and their professors figure out how to move all in-person classes to internet construction to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Students don’t have to decide now whether to keep regular letter grades. They ca...

The Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming has suspended delivery of Girl Scout Cookies in order to ensure the health and welfare of the members their families  and the communities they serve. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming membership consists of more than 9,200 girls and 3,000 adults.

Montana Universities that are pushing students to leave campus will offer refunds for housing and meal plans. The refunds will cover the period from Monday to the end of the spring semester. Schools are required to have their refund process set by Wednesday and to have refunds available by April 15th.

Yellowstone National Park has received a substantial number of requests to  temporarily close from state and local partners including the governors of Montana and Wyoming health officials from all surrounding counties and local government leadership. Park Superintendent Cam Sholly said today that the park is taking these requests very seriousl...