The Montana High School Association has released guidelines for the spring sports season last week. As far as track, MHSA is recommending and encouraging holding dual and triangular meets. Multi-team invitational events can be held if proper protocols are followed including masking and social distancing. The MHSA established a limit on entries based on the amount of teams at invitationals.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has extended the payment and filing deadlines for Montana individual income taxpayers’ 2020 tax returns to May 17. “Last year brought real, serious challenges to Montanans, and it’s only appropriate to extend the deadline so Montana taxpayers have some extra time to file, without having to worry about interest or penalties,” Gianforte said. The May

( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of everyone incarcerated and persons booked into the jail during the previous week and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) Prisoners housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center this past week include: Michael Azure, 29, Wolf Point, disorderly conduct.

Montana residents might not need to spring forward and fall back their clocks in the future. Senate Bill 254, which aims to revise Daylight Saving Time, was heard in the Montana House’s energy, technology and federal relations committee on Friday, March 19. The Senate passed the bill, 31-18, on its third reading on March 2. Bill sponsor Mary McNally, D-Billings, said the main purpose of

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is leading the charge with 20 other states in suing to overturn President Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. Knudsen, a native of Culbertson, said during a national interview on Fox News that Biden is “pandering to coastal elite friends” with the decision to shutdown the pipeline. “It’s a huge loss for Montana,” Knudsen said

A briefing conducted by the National Weather Service of Glasgow on Friday, March 19, indicated that the area shouldn’t be expecting a great deal of precipitation in the near future. Patrick Gilchrist, warning coordinator meteorologist, reported that the forecast for the next 8-14 days calls for below normal temperatures and a below normal chance of precipitation. Outlook until the end of