WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to four discretionary grants for environmental education in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $300,000 with a ceiling of $100,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of the Environmental Education Loca  more

BILLINGS, Montana, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Kurt G. Alme, issued the following news release: The U.S. Attorney's Office held on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation today the first of four public trainings this week on how to use a national database system for missing persons, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. The USAO also recently released a Missing Indigenous Persons Public Service Announcement on what people can do if a loved one goes missing. A representative for   more

HELENA, Montana, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Montana Field Office issued the following news release: MONTANA HIGHLIGHTS Based on November 1 conditions, sugarbeet production in Montana is forecast at 1.32 million tons, up less than one-half percent from the 1.32 million tons produced in 2018, according to the November 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics S  more