Members of Wolf Point’s football and volleyball teams ride on a float during the homecoming parade held on Friday, Oct. 11. (Photo by Bill Vander Weele)

As the climate in the American West becomes increasingly arid and drought stress becomes more common, agricultural producers are seeking to understand how crops weather those warmer and drier trends across Montana’s rangelands. A postdoctoral researcher in Montana State University’s Department of Ecology is exploring some of those questions by delving into the microbial communities in rangeland

A Dillon man was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for his role in breaching the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, following his conviction on one felony and four misdemeanor counts earlier this year. Henry Phillip “Hank” Muntzer, 55, will have to serve a year of supervised release and pay $2,000 in restitution in addition to his two-year prison sentence, according to

Oct. 4 was the first day of electrofishing efforts by Montana FWP fisheries and hatchery staff. There are definitely Chinook salmon present in some of the bays, but spawning activity is not quite fully underway. The official salmon snagging (and, new this year, bowfishing), season started Oct. 1. Water surface temperatures are still relatively warm as it relates to salmon spawning activity.

Medicaid, the joint federal- state health care program for low-income Americans, opens the door to services such as paying for help to prepare meals or shower safely. But applying for and obtaining that coverage can take weeks or months, leaving aging people in a dangerous limbo: too vulnerable to live at home without assistance, but too healthy to merit a hospital or nursing home bed. Montana

Tribal Health Effort Students Race During First Tipi Challenge A different type of race took place at the Wolf Point High School football field on Wednesday, Oct. 2. A tipi challenge featured four teams trying to put together their own tipi in a maximum time of 15 minutes. Organizer Donovan “Beef” Archambault explained that Phoebe Blount of Fort Peck tribal health’s suicide awareness