Area residents endured some harsh temperatures during the first full week of 2022. After a high temperature of 13 degrees on Tuesday, Jan. 4, the high temperature was only 7 degrees below zero in Wolf Point on Wednesday, Jan. 5. According to the National Weather Service, the low temperature in Wolf Point on Jan. 5 was 24 degrees below zero. The temperatures were 15.5 degrees colder than average.

After proclaiming January as Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in Montana, Gov, Greg Gianforte has teamed up with Attorney General Austin Knudsen to encourage Montanans to join the fight to end human trafficking. “Generating an estimated $150 billion worldwide per year, human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery whereby traffickers, which are often organized criminal enterprises,