The Montana High School Association executive board approved sites for this winter’s post-season extra-curricular competitions during a meeting on Thursday, Jan. 28. State wrestling meets are planned for March 5-6 with Class A in Miles City and Class B/C in Shelby. The first all-girls’ state wrestling meet will take place Feb. 19-20 at Lockwood High School in Billings. Sidney also made a

The District 2C basketball tournament will have a different format than previous seasons because of social distancing precautions. Tournament action will be held in both Sidney and Culbertson during the third week of February. Games will actually begin on Saturday, Feb. 13, when the seventh-10th place teams will take part in play-in games hosted by Culbertson. Starting times are scheduled

The American Prairie Reserve and officials in Phillips County have resolved an ongoing dispute after more than four years of discussions. The dispute has its origins in a controversial APR plan for a 3.5-million acre complex in Phillips County that would have allowed free-roaming bison to be reintroduced without interior fencing and other land management tools. After years of talks, the

The Montana Legislature is approving at the Senate level an increase to the homestead exemption. The bill reads that the limitation on value for a homestead would change from $250,000 to $350,000. The bill passed its second reading by a 50-0 on Wednesday, Jan. 27. Bill sponsor Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, suggested an amendment to the bill on Jan. 27 that would automatically increase

•March 11: Seasonal Outlooks and Potential Climate Change Impacts for Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota - Patrick Gilchrist, warning coordination meteorologist/ service coordination hydrologist, NOAA, National Weather Service Station – Glasgow. •March 25: Topic: marketing; Title: pending; Keynote -Dr. Vincent Smith, professor, Initiative for Regulation and Applied Economic Analysis,

U.S. Senators Steve Daines and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) introduced a bipartisan bill Feb. 1, The “USPS Fairness Act” is designed to repeal a mandate requiring the U.S. Postal Service to pre-fund its employees’ retirement health benefits. The USPS is the only federal agency that is subject to this requirement. “The United States Postal Service is essential to Montanans across our state,