Senator Steve Daines announced Thursday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be directing $3,004,376 to 14 health centers across Montana to expand testing for COVID-19. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-16-3-1.mp3
Representative Greg Gianforte Urging Flexibility For Funding County Governments Through CARES Act
Congressman Greg Gianforte and a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy urging them to provide flexibility in emergency funding to county governments in a future COVID-19 relief package. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-16-2.mp3
Special Enrollment In Effect To Sign Up For Health Insurance Due To COVID-19
Because of COVID-19 a special enrollment period now exists to sign up for health insurance. John Doran Vice President of External Affairs at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana explains. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-13-1-1.mp3
BNSF Railway Closing Maintenance Facilities Due To Lower Projections For Rail Cars
BNSF Railway has made the decision to close maintenance facilities in Glendive as well as Guernsey and Rosette Wyoming in response to their changing business conditions and lower projections for rail cars to ship commodities. Public Affairs Director for BNSF Railway Maia LaSalle. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Unti...
Box Elder Women Sentenced in 2019 Stabbing
Katie Lynn Big Bow, who admitted to stabbing a man in the upper chest with a butterfly knife on the Rocky boy’s Indian Reservation in 2019, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release. The Box Elder woman and the victim were in a long term relationship.
Montana Air National Guard Public Affairs Chief Talks About Air Salute Over Montana For COVID-19 Health Workers And First Responders
There is a special sight you can see in the sky sometime today courtesy of the Montana Air National Guard. Public Affairs Chief Captain Dan Bushnell on the C-130 salute. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-2-1.mp3
Removal of Grizzly Bears from Threatened Species Litigation Update
In 2017 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sought to remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s population of about 700 grizzly bears from the list of threatened species. A coalition of Indian tribes and environmental groups have spent the last three years litigating to stop them. Tuesday judges for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral ...
Census Resumes Operations
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced Montana will be one of the few states in the nation to resume update leave operations this week. During the operation census employees will leave packets on doors of tribal nations in Montana as well as people who live on rural routes or get their mail via Post Office Box. Montana has among the highest pe...
Charitable Trust Works to Prevent Further COVID-19 Deaths
With 456 cases of COVID-19 reported in Montana the Leona M. and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust is working to prevent further COVID-19 deaths through a $4.7 million donation across Montana the Dakotas Nebraska and Wyoming. The funding will be used to pay for 367 LUCAS mechanical CPR devices to be deployed to hospitals for caring the patients...
Governor Steve Bullock Details First Round Of Emergency Funding Grants Starting Thursday May 7th
Tuesday Governor Steve Bullock hosted a press call to announce the first round of funding for emergency grants being guided by more than 1,400 public comments and his Coronavirus Relief Fund Advisory Council. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-18-1.mp3