If Montana voters approve the ballot initiatives legalizing recreational marijuana this November, it could raise between $43.4 and $52 million dollars in tax revenue for the state, according to a new report by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. The report, authored by BBER director Patrick Barkey and associate director Robert Sonora, found that legalized recreational marijuana could bring

Mike Olson, Fire Warden With the fall weather creeping closer, Roosevelt County will be coming out of Stage 1 burn restrictions beginning on Friday, Oct. 9. This will allow us to begin opening up days for burning when the weather conditions are favorable. With the lack of moisture, strong winds and dry fuel, it will still be a week or two before we will be able to allow burning. Once burning

The Montana Supreme Court has stayed a lower court’s order requiring any ballot with an Election Day postmark to be counted. Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton had argued that the shift away from counting only ballots election officials receive by Nov. 3 would cause confusion. For 35 years, Montana law has required that ballots be in the election official’s possession by the time

Montana businesses are now eligible to apply for workforce recovery grant dollars to help companies refill jobs that were lost due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montana Department of Commerce has launched a temporary workforce recovery grant program as part of the Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund. “Businesses across the state are managing through a variety of

Poplar Schools activities/ athletic director Coy Weeks has announced that all of Poplar’s middle school and high school sports contests and practices have been postponed until further notice. This is in response to a decision made by Poplar superintendent of schools Dan Schmidt on Sept. 25 to go with a week of remote learning status for students due to the number of active COVID-19 cases in the

The District 1C volleyball tournament will probably be held in both Culbertson and Bainville after guidelines were announced by the Montana High School Association last week. The MHSA released that because of COVID-19 concerns and the effort to limit exposure, post-season volleyball play must follow one of two options. One option is a single-elimination playoff bracket where the higher seed

Montana’s young hunters and their hunting mentors will have a special treat the weekend of Sep. 26-27, when they can take advantage of a statewide youth-only waterfowl and pheasant hunt. Licensed hunters or apprentice hunters, 15 and under, will be able to hunt ducks, mergansers, geese, coots and pheasants statewide on these two days. The two-day youth hunt is open to legally licensed 12-

The Wolf Point Wolves suffered a 48-7 football loss at Colstrip on Friday night, Sept. 25. “We just didn’t play well,” Wolf Point coach Ryan Wilson said. “We had a lot of turnovers. Mental mistakes hurt us. Colstrip played tough.” Scoring Wolf Point’s touchdown was Austin Wilson. Leaders in rushing for the Wolves were Wilson with 69 yards and Braeden Toavs with 30 yards.