Area voters will have a choice to make between a long-time legislator and a political newcomer in the election for House District 31. Republican Kevin Taylor is challenging incumbent Frank Smith in the Nov. 5 election. Taylor, who lives just outside of Glasgow, said it’s up to the voters if they want someone with fresh eyes and fresh ears in the state legislature. “It’s going

Great Northern Development Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a $550,000 grant from the U.S. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund as part of the CDFI Financial Assistance program. This grant will bolster GNDC’s efforts to provide critical lending services to small businesses across northeastern Montana. The CDFI Fund’s Financial Assistance program

A house fire was reported in Poplar at 3:36 p.m. Oct. 23. A statement from the Poplar Volunteer Fire Department said that multiple firefighters were paged out to a structure fire at 407 C Street West. As of 7:30 p.m., nine firefighters were reported as hospitalized for possible toxic smoke inhalation. According to the statement, “One of the nine members was transported to the hospital by ambulance

John Driscoll tells a story about campaigning as a Democrat for U.S. House in far eastern Montana, where he came across a woman who welcomed him like a desert island castaway. “She said, ‘You’re a real live political person and you’re a Democrat?’ I go, ‘Yeah,’ and she hugged me.” Driscoll said. “They haven’t had much face-to-face contact out there. That’s what I’m seeing

The past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of genetic tests, including new instruments to inform patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer about the risk of recurrence and to guide their treatment. But the clinical significance of many of the inherited mutations that can now be identified remains unclear, and experts are torn on when and how to deploy all the new tests available.

Montana State University will host nearly 1,800 high school and middle school students from across the state Nov. 14-16 for the annual Montana FFA Ag Expo. The event includes leadership development workshops, education about career options with industry representatives, and tours of MSU research and academic facilities. Students will also compete in FFA activities, such as quiz bowls and livestock

More than 80 people from industry, government and academia gathered Friday, Oct. 11, at an event hosted by Montana State University to promote career paths and job creation in the emerging field of quantum devices and systems. The New Frontiers in Quantum and Emerging Technologies meeting in Bozeman was the result of MSU’s strong leadership in developing new technologies and in workforce development,