•Each district should consist of compact territory and be contiguous. Goal criteria for legislative districts include: •No plan may be drawn to unduly favor a political party. •The commission shall attempt to minimize dividing cities, towns, counties and federal reservations between districts when possible. •The commission may consider keeping communities of interest

tandings Tuesday Night Golf League As of Aug. 3 New Guys 92.0 Opportunity Bank 88.5 Northern Prairie 84.5 First Community Bank 81 Nutrien 75.0 FPCC 75.0 In the Rough 73.0 Fore the Glory 56.5 Arnie’s Army 49.5 Low Gross: Wes Kirn, 39 Low Net: Shane Gibson, 26

Montana schools are set to receive more than $127 million in critical funding to help reopen safely in the fall and get students back on track, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced last week. The $127,339,745 is the second tranche of Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds Tester secured as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and will help Montana schools safely

Drought conditions continue to impact the upper Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, IA. July runoff in the upper Basin was 34 percent of average. July runoff above Fort Peck Dam was the lowest in 123 years of record- keeping. The updated 2021 upper Basin runoff forecast is 14.6 million acre-feet (MAF), 57 percent of average. If realized, this runoff amount would be the 10th driest year in

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is again leading the charge in defense of Montanans’ right to keep and bear arms against federal overreach. Seventeen other state attorneys general signed onto Knudsen’s amicus brief filed late Monday, Aug. 2, in the Gun Owners of America v. Merrick Garland case, against the of rulemaking from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Hunter Education course dates have been set for Poplar from 5-8 p.m. Aug. 16-20. The classes will take place at Poplar Middle School. All hunter education classes are free of charge. For youth to be eligible to hunt and be fully certified during the 2021 season, hunters must be 12-years old by January 16, 2022. Students aged 10 and 11 can take a course and hunt

those markets must then turn around and sell their crops to four companies that control 82 percent of the soybean crushing and 84 percent of wet corn milling in the United States. Further undermining our agricultural economy, many of the companies controlling markets for farm inputs, like fertilizer, and commodities are vertically integrated, which means they control multiple stages of the supply

U.S. Rep. Rosendale, R-Mont., introduced the Rural Telehealth Expansion Act. This legislation would expand Medicare to cover store-and-forward telehealth services to all 50 states. Store-and-Forward telehealth services allows for a patient to send electronic communications including photos, messages, and video clips to their primary care providers instead of making them visit the care provider

“Providing supports to parents and serving children with developmental delays or disabilities when they’re under the age of three can prevent further, more costly services and ensure their success down the road,” Gianforte said. The governor also announced the allocation of more than $32 million in federal funds to support COVID-19 screening and testing in schools. DPHHS will serve as