Author: Brian Bennett

Flathead Valley residents are taking advantage of spring open burning season to get outside and practice social-distancing with COVID-19 in mind. They are completing annual fuels-reduction work around their homes and property burning branches and making progress with cleanup. Multiple widespread high wind events over the  past winter resulted ...

Attorney General Tim Fox and other attorneys general urged Amazon Facebook eBay Walmart and Craigslist to more rigorously monitor price gouging practices by online sellers using their services. Anyone with coronavirus-related consumer complaints should call the Montana Department of Justice’s Office of  Consumer Protection.

Coronavirus may be keeping children from their classrooms but this week in Butte   The classroom is being taken to the students online. The approximately 400 students in Butte’s Catholic schools will be learning from home as all K through 12 classes will be taught over the internet.

The Adjutant General of the Montana National Guard Major General Matt Quinn has ordered that it institute a closed base policy to protect all employees in accordance with the national and state declarations of emergency concerning COVID-19.  The new policy limits access go Montana National Guard installations and facilities.

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.