U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona today recognized 325 schools as National Blue-Ribbon Schools for 2021 including Ridge View Elementary School in Belgrade and Cascade Elementary School in Cascade. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. Now in...
Summit Next Month Will Address Stopping Climate Change In Montana
The Energy Future Summit October 1st hosted by the Northern Plains Resource Council will explore renewable energy in Montana. The summit’s topics have gained urgency as the effects of climate change were felt this summer. As late as last Wednesday Northern Plains board member Joan Kresich said the subject of a just transition is important for ...
New Panel May Form To Reduce Wrongful Convictions In Montana
Montana ranks 2nd in the nation in wrongful convictions according to the National Registry of Exonerations. President of the Montana State Council on Judicial Accountability Bart Crabtree is working to introduce legislation to create an innocence inquiry commission. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/9-21_832.mp3
Montana Officials Critical Of Continued Canadian Border Closure
Montana elected officials from both sides of the aisle have decried news the Biden administration will extend travel restrictions from Canada into the U.S. for at least another month. Senator Jon Tester said there was no basis for the continued restrictions for Canadians who are vaccinated against COVID-19. Senator Steve Daines also criticized...
Shodair Children’s Hospital Encouraging People To Discuss Mental Health Struggles
This is national suicide prevention and awareness month. Monday, on Voices of Montana, Alana Listow, Shodair Children’s Hospital Chief Communications Officer, was asked if younger people are more willing to talk about their problems than adults are. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/9-21_637.mp3
Governor Gianforte May Push For VA Department To Accept Additional Patients
During the last week at least 45 more Montanans died of COVID-19 and more than 6,400 new cases have been added bringing the active case count to almost 10,000. Governor Greg Gianforte’s office is in discussions to ask the Department of Veterans Affairs to accept otherwise ineligible patients at its facilities. The state can submit a formal req...
Information sought for Bull Elk Poaching near Butte
BUTTE – Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks are seeking information on a bull elk that was shot and killed northwest of Butte last week. The six-point bull was killed on private land along North Browns Gulch Road about 5 miles northwest of Butte. The bull elk carcass was abandoned in the field after it was shot. Wardens inte...
Off Season Hours for Lewis & Clark State Park
Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park will move to off-season hours of operation starting Friday, Oct. 1. From Oct. 1 through April 15, 2022, the main visitor center will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. The center will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays and observed holidays on these dates: Nov. 11 and 25, Dec. 24-26 and ...
DNRC Director Kaster Provides Update On Sage-Grouse Conservation
With an estimated 18 percent of the total greater sage-grouse population and about 20 percent of the species occupies range in its borders Montana is the northern-most stronghold for greater sage-grouse and is key to the species’ survival. Amanda Kaster Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation recently gave an upd...
Local Conservation Groups Seeking Limited Oil & Gas Leasing
President Joe Biden’s pause on oil and gas leases on public lands was overturned, but conservation groups want to ensure the leasing process is limited in scope. The Bureau of Land Management has proposed a lease sale covering more than 6,200 acres in Montana. Aubrey Bertram with Wild Montana says there’s an urgent need to curb carbon emission...