Poplar’s declining enrollment figures were a topic during a recent school board meeting as the school year begins At the school board meeting, Superintendent of Schools Keith Erickson said the school district’s current enrollment is 781 students. “As our funding is directly tied to enrollment, I’m concerned about our current kindergarten, first and second grade enrollment,” Erickson

Along with The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Gov. Greg Gianforte, as chair of the Montana Land Board, has announced an oil and gas lease sale on state trust lands totaling more than $2.1 million in revenue. “Montana provides key energy resources to make our state and nation energy independent and secure,” Gianforte said. “The funding generated by this sale represents

The remains of a woman and two infants were laid to rest alongside other repatriated ancestors at the new tribal cemetery north of Poplar on Friday, Sept. 18. The burial ceremonies took place after the Fort Peck Tribes Cultural Preservation Department repatriated ancestral human remains of the remains from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The remains included a woman found with associated

Monday it rained all day, and there was ½” by mid morning. By the end of the week Lustre received a full inch and harvesting could only happen on Thursday or Friday. The MB Harvest Festival is Oct. 4-6 starting with a 10:30 a.m. Sunday service. Former MB Pastor Rev. J Epp is the speaker. His wife is Lisa and they come from Kansas. A 1:30 p.m. service follows lunch. Monday and Tuesday evening

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen stressed the importance of strengthening public safety in tribal communities during testimony in front of the U.S. House of Representatives’ committee on the judiciary last week. Knudsen, a former county attorney in Roosevelt County, attempted to educate representatives about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis. In his testimony,

Montana-Dakota Utilities must perform occasional maintenance and upgrades to electrical systems to ensure the most reliable electric service possible. These operations are scheduled in advance to provide customers ample notice to prepare for the outage. Please refer to the list below for upcoming planned power outages. Wolf Point: There will be a planned power outage for all customers in

Double Tab, by Don Bentley and Vince Flynn is #25 in the Mitch Rapp series. This storyline continues with the American assassin taking Mitch Rapp on a mission to infiltrate a jihadi group with access to weapons of mass destruction! A Pakistani scientist is kidnapped by a terrorist cell and their plan is to force him to come up with more ways to terrorize the rest of the world. This is the same