Montana DOC: Millions in Federal Loans Available to Help Montana’s Small Businesses Expand, Create Jobs

BROWNING, MONTANA: This Saturday, June 1st, from 3:00 pm-4:30 pm, the Museum of the Plains Indian will host a public celebration to open a special exhibition, the 2024 Summer Showcase, featuring works by Ishkoten Dougi, Barbara Gerard-Mitchell and Bobby Von Martin.  The exhibiti...

The Montana State Library has announced the winners of its 2024 Montana History Portal Meme Contest. Participants were invited to choose a photo from the State Library's online collection of historic photographs and come up with a clever caption. Finalist...

MISSOULA – It’s typically not condoned for University of Montana students to skip classes to sample beer at 9 a.m., but there they were on a recent weekday morning sipping an IPA at Missoula’s Draught Works brewery. Lest you think of them ...

BOZEMAN – 2024 is the summer to plan a family weekend trip to the Museum of the Rockies at Bozeman. MSU's MOR will host the "Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids: Mythic Creatures" opens Memorial Day weekend, featuring models and replicas of preserved specimens from the American Museum of Natural History and other museums’ collections, as well as cast fossils of prehistoric animals. The exhibi

GREAT FALLS – First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park near Ulm is celebrating the 25th  anniversary of the opening of its visitor center and invites visitors to join the celebration by attending activities in the park this summer. A weekly “J...

MISSOULA – At the University of Montana, nearly 2,600 undergraduate students made the spring semester 2024 Dean’s List or President’s 4.0 List. To qualify, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits. Students who receive ...

HELENA – It might seem like a good idea at the time, but dumping an aquarium pet into a lake or river is not good for the pet or for the native wildlife. The pet probably won’t survive, and native wildlife won’t know how to compete with the invasive species. Earlier this spring, ...

HELENA, Mont. – This summer marks the 75th anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire near Helena. In coordination with the Last Chance Backcountry Horsemen, the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest replaced four of the monuments honoring the thirteen firefighters who perished in the 1949 fire.  Pack mu ...

BOZEMAN — The Montana State University College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station will once again host a series of field days this summer at six of the university’s research centers around the state, plus two additional events at campus farms in Bozeman. “We look forward to our fie...

BOZEMAN -- The Montana State University Extension Service has issued an Ag Alert bulletin, after its Schutter Diagnostic Lab reported receiving winter wheat and pulse plant samples with symptoms of frost damage and Pythium infection. Symptoms noted in the bulletin:   Cold damage in wheat: Winter Wheat leaves may show injury as yellow tips and dying tissue (Fig. 1). Stem...

HELENA - A new online-only exhibit created by the Montana Historical Society explores the experiences of area residents who participated in the Korean War. Situated between World War II and the Vietnam War, the Korean War is often overshadowed by those conflicts despite its own far-reaching geopolitical implications, many of which remain present today...

Montana's first forest fire of the season has grown to 99 acres. It was first reported Sunday, May 12th. Firefighters from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest and the Montana DNRC are battling a wildfire in the Elk Creek drainage of the Sapphire Mountains, 20 miles southwest of Philipsburg. Forest offici...