health emergency. Current funding available is $400,000. Food Bank and Food Pantry Assistance of up to $50,000 per applicant are available to increase food security for Montanans hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Eligible applicants include community organizations providing food assistance to Montanans with limited resources, food banks, food pantries, community cupboards, and entities with

The Optimist Club of Wolf Point has set a goal of making a mile of pennies leading up Sixth Avenue North. The attempt will be made Sunday, June 7. Event organizers Helen Welte and Gloria Sande say they will start laying the first coins along the route at 2 p.m. Proceeds from the event will go to the group’s childhood health and wellness fund. According to the group’s promotional flyer,

take proactive measures to ensure compliance with social distancing requirements, including where possible: designating with signage, tape, or by other means sixfoot spacing for employees and customers in line to maintain appropriate distance; having hand sanitizer and sanitizing products readily available for employees and customers; implementing separate operating hours for elderly and vulnerable

rate continues to hover just below 50 percent at 48 percent as of Monday, May 4. The absence of update leave operations, originally slated to begin in late March through early April, has kept many Montanans from receiving their formal invitation to respond or a paper census form. The Census is easy, safe and important. Montanans can fill out their form online , by phone at 844-330-2020, or

The ACLU of Montana sent right-to-know requests to the Department of Corrections, the Governor’s Office and the Board of Pardons and Parole April 22, along with Gallatin County Pre-Release Center, Lewis and Clark County Jail and Butte County Jail. The organization seeks to learn what concrete measures state and local agencies and officials have taken to protect people in prison and jail from

Board of Pardons and Parole’s implementation of early release for certain prisoners per the April 1 directive from Governor Bullock; communications between or among the Governor’s office, the Department of Corrections and any other state agency or official, estimating or predicting COVID-19 infection rates and mortality among people living and working in DOC facilities. These requests come

The edge. Every athlete, from the professional to the weekend warrior, strives to obtain that ever-elusive element that leads to victory — sometimes sparing no expense to get there. A lighter bike, a better training regimen, the newest shoes. A recently released study from the University of Montana, however, has discovered that common “edge,” sports nutrition products, are no more

Currently, there’s little demand for the world’s oil and we’re running out of places to put it. That, in a nutshell, explains the unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts Monday, April 20, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month. The price of U.S. benchmark crude that would be

muscle recovery between male and female recreational athletes using potato products and sports supplements. Eight men and eight women participated in the study, which involved 90 minutes of intense cycling followed by rest, recovery and refueling and a 20-kilometer time trial. After a lot of sweat was spent, blood drawn and muscles biopsied, the results showed that muscles in both men and women