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HELENA – Attorney General Austin Knudsen is encouraging Montanans to be on high-alert and take measures to protect their identity following reports that billions of records, including social security numbers and other sensitive information, may have been compromised. According to reports, a hacking group USDoD allegedly stole personal records of 2.9 billion people and claims to be selling it online for millions. The data includes names, address histories, relatives, and S...
At its August 12 meeting, he Lincoln School Board of Trustees voted to hire former Superintendent Kathy Heisler as an interim Superintendent for one year while the District looks for a long term administrator. The Trustees had previously hired Mike Boyle, an experienced administrator, to take over the position after Jennifer Packer's retirement on June 20, 2024. But Mr. Boyle resigned only one week after beginning work in July 2024, after finding the commuting distance from...
We're less than 100 days away from a presidential election that many Americans consider the most consequential of their lifetimes. So, it's hardly surprising that most of the attention in the runup to November is focused there. But I'm here today to make a plea: Pay attention to congressional and legislative contests, too. I say this not out of some civic do-gooder belief that all public offices matter, but because what happens in this year's congressional and legislative race...
"Colorado is high, having more peaks within its borders than any other state. Wyoming is wide, with the breadth of the plains between the Bighorns and the Grand Tetons. California is handsome, with a splendor of success. It takes all three adjectives to describe Montana." In 1941, Donald Curloss Peattie, a naturalist of the 1920's through the 1950s, included these words in his book "The Road of a Naturalist." In 1943, Montana newsman and writer Joseph Kinsey Howard took the...
Do you own a home and wonder what it's worth? You can easily look up your address on Zillow and see the estimated value is rapidly rising, translating to more property taxes. Too many Montana families cannot keep up with an annual $249-million property tax increase imposed by Republican Governor Gianforte and his party in the Legislature. Yet, after months of analysis by the Governor's property tax task force, they recommended a complicated process that will raise our taxes...
The Lewis and Clark County Commission is seeking interested citizens to serve on the following boards: Airport Authority Board Board of Adjustment Compensation Board Consolidated City and County Planning Board Forestvale Cemetery Board Forestvale Historic Preservation Committee Lewis and Clark County DUI Task Force Lincoln Parks Board Lincoln Solid Waste Board Noxious Weed Board – Augusta, Wolf Creek Open Lands Citizens Advisory Committee Scratchgravel Solid Waste District A...
Pioneer Wireless, LLC proposes to construct a 195-ft (199-ft overall with appurtenances) AGL monopole communications tower south of a portion of Stemple Pass Road, north of a portion of Gould Creek Road, southeast of the Town of Lincoln, in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Interested persons are invited to identify historic sites already listed in, or that may be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in the vicinity of the proposed facility and to...
Two years ago when Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks quietly unveiled a proposal to put Habitat Montana funds toward 30- and 40-year conservation leases, proponents described it as a "new conservation planning tool" while opponents warned of a "sea change" that could weaken one of the state's most popular habitat protection programs. Now, with Fish and Wildlife Commission approval secured for the first round of Habitat Conservation Leases and another set of agreements open for...
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a scary reality facing 13 million Americans, acutely affecting veterans who risked their lives to serve our country and resilient survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse. Helping these individuals find relief where they can is imperative, and one federal agency is considering action that could do just that. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to vote on the approval of MDMA-assisted therapy (MDMA-AT) to treat PTSD in the next...
The subadult female grizzly bear wasn't hanging around to wait for the trap door to open all the way. She was done with confinement. With the buzz of a drone above her and the Wyoming high country in front of her, she bounded out the culvert-shaped trap when the door was only halfway up. Before her was the wild heart of Wyoming, an entire state away from where she had lived just one day prior. This female grizzly bear, all 204 pounds of her, represents a coordinated and...
HELENA – The wolf population in Montana remains healthy, according to the 2023 Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Wolf Report. Increased harvest during the 2023 wolf season has not yet resulted in an estimated decline to the statewide total. However, FWP biologists expect to see a moderate decline in wolf numbers next year resulting from the increased harvest in early 2024. "We are committed to following the law to reduce wolf numbers to a sustainable level, which means ensuring M...
Anna Marie Cox, age 85, passed away Monday, July 29, 2024, of natural causes in Great Falls, Mont. She was surrounded by family in her final hours. Anna was born Dec. 15, 1938, to Armand and Helen Crooks and blessed with one younger sister, Patricia. She was a graduate of Pleasant Hill High School in 1957. Anna married Dennis Baca Sept. 27, 1957, and together they welcomed two children, David and Teri. As a family they spent a lot of time at the racetrack and in the ocean....
Helena MT – Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton has lifted evacuation warnings for the Black Mountain Fire near Lincoln, Montana. Under the evacuation warning, access to the area north of Highway 200 from Lone Point Drive to the east just past Stonewall Creek, north of Lone Point Drive and Tamarack Lane, north of North Lincoln Gulch/Morris Drive, north of the intersection of Beaver Creek Road and Stonewall Creek and all feeder roads north of that intersection had been r...
