Artist's sculpted phone booths send suicide prevention messages to rural Montana

BELGRADE, Mont. — Montana consistently ranks as having one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. Factors like social isolation and the lack of behavioral health services are of particular concern in Montana's rural communities. One of Montana…

The gift of a library helped a former Montana mining town thrive for 100 years

VIRGINIA CITY — "In many ways, the Virginia City that we know and love today, from a tourism perspective, started a hundred years ago," says Jim Jarvis, the author of "Virginia City, Montana: 100 Years of Keeping Time." A gold rush …

From Nigeria to Bozeman, filmmaker brings "Water Girl" to Montana theaters

GREAT FALLS — A Nigerian born director, now living in Bozeman, is getting ready to share his latest feature film with the Treasure State. “If I can make an African film here in Montana, you can do anything, trust me it’s just beautiful,” said Nnamdi Kanaga …

New to the game, and already chasing greatness on Montana rugby pitches

BILLINGS — The Yellowstone Mavericks rugby program was founded just four and a half months ago. Since then, a group of first-time players has made an unexpected run to the state semifinals. “They learned a sport that they’ve never touched the ball before, …

Montana Court Strikes Down Trans Youth Care Ban

Illustration: Todd Franson, Adobe AI A Montana court has struck down that state’s law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, finding that restricting their access to care — and punishing the doctors who attempt to provide that care — is …

New Flood Watch for South Central Montana and More Rain is Coming

With heavy snow runoff, and additional heavy rain in the weather forecast, south central Montana is under a Flood Watch until Monday afternoon. The Bighorn Canyon, Pryor/Northern Bighorn Mountains and Southern Big Horn areas are under this new Flood …

Montana man who claims to be God is sentenced to 6 years for bank robberies

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. A Montana man who said he believes he is God was sentenced to six years in prison by a federal judge in Little Rock on Wednesday on one count of bank robbery in connection …

MONTANA SOLDIERS ENHANCE BRITISH ARMY READINESS

On May 16th 2025, Montana’s 1-163rd Combined Arms Battalion hosted over a dozen British Army Soldiers of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry (RWxY) at the Limestone Hills Training Facility in a joint training event to help their armored crewmembers transition to the …

Experimental Drugs Without FDA Approval Are Now Legal in Montana

Montana is now the first state in the U.S. to become an officially sanctioned playground for experimental medical treatments. Thanks to a recently signed law, Senate Bill 535, anyone can legally access drugs that have passed just one Phase I clinical trial …

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