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The Bitterroot Star requested the following information from all candidates who have challengers in this election cycle. • brief bio and photo • statement of why you are running and […]

The Bitterroot Star requested the following information from all candidates who have challengers in this election cycle. • brief bio and photo • statement of why you are running and […]

May 7, 2020 Governor Steve Bullock today announced additional Phase One guidelines that will allow gyms and fitness studios, movie theaters and museums the option to reopen beginning Friday, May […]

May 6, 2020 Governor Steve Bullock today announced $10 million in federal CARES Act funding is now available to Montana childcare providers to continue serving Montana families with essential workers […]

Will there be live music concerts in the ‘new normal’? Debra and Jason Hicks, founders of the Joan Zen Band, like many professional musicians across the nation are not immune from […]

Sometime during the night last Tuesday, April 28, or perhaps in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, someone spray painted a couple of messages on one of the […]

In a decision issued on April 29, Federal District Judge Dana Christensen denied a request from the Friends of the Bitterroot for a Preliminary Injunction/Temporary Restraining Order to stop the […]

Governor Steve Bullock has announced that families, small businesses, non-profits, health services centers and individuals across Montana hardest-hit by impacts of COVID-19 will be eligible to apply for grants through […]

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced today a multimillion-dollar effort to save the lives of COVID-19 patients and protect the frontline healthcare workers caring for them. […]

May 4, 2020    As of noon today, May 4, 2020, there are no new cases of COVID-19 in Ravalli County.  There were 5 positive cases, and all of the cases […]

The Bitterroot National Forest staff is working hard to bring developed campgrounds back on line and most are projected to open by Memorial Day weekend.  Additionally, some of the less developed […]

On Wednesday, April 22nd, the Governor announced a phased-in approach to reopening the state. The Montana Hospital Association (MHA) supported this approach and encouraged hospitals to develop strategies to return […]

April 29, 2020 Governor Bullock lays out testing protocols, establishes strike teams MONTANA – Governor Steve Bullock today outlined a framework to ramp up testing capacity in Montana over the […]

April 29, 2020   As of noon today, April 29, 2020, there are no new cases of COVID-19 in Ravalli County.  There were 5 positive cases, and all of the […]

Gov. Steve Bullock made clear that during Phase 1 of his reopening plan there is no expiration date. “The virus is still in Montana and will be with us for […]

UM News Service   Montanans will face a “broad-based recession of greater magnitude than what was experienced in 2008-09” in 2020, according to an analysis of the state economy released […]

The Montana National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility will house the Battelle System to clean and disinfect respirators to ensure health care workers stay safe during national shortages of Personal […]

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By Marnie Craig In 1994, a team of book lovers with handcarts and strong backs wheeled bookshelves and boxes of books across Hamilton’s Main Street into the corner storefront on […]

The shelter-in-place directive that was instituted across the state to blunt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Montana expired on Sunday, April 26 for individuals and Monday, April 27 […]