WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Department of Defense announced today a $6.56 million award via the Defense Production Act Investment (DPAI) office to Montana Technological University (Montana Tech), located in Butte, Montana. The award will fund the development and delivery of a critical workforce development program that will allow trainees to upskill their capabilities in metallurgical, geological, mining, and environmental engineering. Th  more

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, today announced a settlement agreement between the federal government and St. Peter's Health, in Helena, in which St. Peter's will pay $10,844,201 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payments to federal health care programs for services perfor  more

MISSOULA, Montana, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: A California man who admitted to mailing thousands of fentanyl pills to co-conspirators in the Butte area for redistribution and to possessing a firearm as part of a large trafficking operation was sentenced on Aug. 27 to 20 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today. The defendant, Antho  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, Aug. 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: A Wolf Point woman who admitted to selling methamphetamine on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced on Aug. 26 to three years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today. The defendant, Talayne Killeen Demarrias, 31, pleaded guilty in April to possession with intent t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news: * * * NRCS is working with conservation partners and landowners to finalize a St. Mary EQIP initiative to assist producers impacted by the siphon failure. * * * The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has been working closely with the Bureau of Reclamation, Milk River Joint Board of Control, the Blackfeet Nation, The Fort Belknap Indian Community, the s  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In June 2024, quits rates (the number of quits during the entire month as a percentage of total employment) were above 3.0 percent in 3 states: Montana (3.2 percent) and South Carolina and Wyoming (3.1 percent each). There were 73,000 quits in South Carolina, 17,000 quits in Montana, and 9,000 quits in Wyoming. Nationally, there were 3,282,000 quit  more