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Retired UA Little Rock Professor Donates $10,000 to Support Future Educators
Angelita Faller | July 24, 2025 UA Little Rock School of Education student Amari Bonne, left, meets her teacher mentor, Melissa Cormier, second from left, during a Teacher Residency Match Day event with the Jacksonville North Pulaski School...
Conservation groups hope new study will spur action on Jefferson River basin water quality
Concern over the Jefferson River basin’s health rose in recent years as its trout populations declined to historic lows. Save Wild Trout Montana and the Upper Missouri River Waterkeeper contracted a study to learn why. Hydrologist Kyle Flynn...

Why a Good Preamp is the Brain, Spine, and Liver of Your Hi-Fi System
In the race toward sleek, all-in-one streaming amplifiers and wireless speaker setups, the hi-fi world seems hellbent on tossing tradition out with the speaker cables. Convenience is king, and separates are increasingly seen as relics of a bygone...

Northwest, California score well for access to locally produced food
Published 8:23 am Thursday, July 24, 2025 Fruit from Beyerle Farm near Dallas, Ore., is shown at the Salem Saturday Market in this 2023 file photo. The Pacific Northwest and California scored well for access to locally produced food in a new...

2025 Horse Roundup | Dennis and Mykal Kirkpatrick
Dennis and Mykal Kirkpatrick’s story revolves around the horse. The couple raise and train performance and ranch horses on their ranch near Wise River, Montana, beneath the Beaverhead-Deer Lodge National Forest. They also raise their own work...

Sibanye expands metals recycling business
Sibanye-Stillwater has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Metallix Refining, a precious metals recycling company based in New Jersey, US. The acquisition is expected to enhance Sibanye’s US recycling operations in Montana and...

Mascot Power Rankings: The best of the fun and furry in college football
You probably missed it. Either because you were too distracted by the ongoing goings-on of conference media days, or perhaps because you miss a lot of stuff because your peripheral vision is perpetually hindered by tiny papier-mâché eye slots or...

MSU Native American studies receives $2.4 million grant for continued programming and student success services
By Diana Setterberg MSU News Service BOZEMAN – On a fall day last year, from her office in Montana State University’s American Indian Hall, Lisa Perry listened with one ear to a colleague teaching traditional beadwork skills to students in the...

Rep. Hageman's bill to remove grizzlies from endangered species list advances
CHEYENNE — A U.S. House committee narrowly approved Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman’s push to remove grizzly bears from the endangered species list in the Yellowstone area, despite opposition from activists and potential legal battles. If given final...

Rock legend Paul McCartney bringing his Got Back Tour to the Alamodome on Saturday, Oct. 25
click to enlarge © 2024 MPL Communications Ltd / Photographer: MJ Kim Paul McCartney's San Antonio show will be the only Texas stop on his current tour. Legendary Beatles singer-songwriter Paul McCartney will bring the current leg of his Got Back...

This Idaho family is perfecting the good night's sleep
You spend, for argument’s sake, a full third of your life sleeping. Anything you spend 33% of your life doing is obviously very important, even if you aren’t fully conscious when you’re doing it. And yet people are still surprised when I tell them...
Woman's sudden rash felt like a 'medical mystery' until dermatologists found the real cause
Sarah Neal Sarah Neal showing the rash she woke up withWhat started as an ordinary night in rural Texas quickly spiraled into a baffling health scare that confounded doctors and captivated thousands. In viral TikTok videos, Sarah Neal documented...

Wolves restore law and order in Yellowstone
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides to give it its binomial name), a deciduous tree native to Yellowstone National Park’s northern range is enjoying a resurgence - all thanks to an unlikely wild predator. Clusters of quaking aspen can be found...

President Trump nominates Bill Mercer to federal bench
BILLINGS — Last Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that a state lawmaker from Billings, William "Bill" Mercer, would be appointed to the federal bench in western Montana. On Friday, a representative for U.S. Sen. Steve Daines confirmed...

The Inlander team was celebrated by journalism professionals for work published in 2024 in both the SPJ and AAN awards
click to enlarge Young Kwak's SPJ-topping portrait of Spokane nurse Hannah Cvancara In newsrooms around the Pacific Northwest and across the United States, it's awards season, when writers, editors and designers find out how their work has fared...

Fawcett farm battles high temperatures as harvest nears
PLENTYWOOD, Mont. – Despite getting a small amount of rain around July 15, the Fawcett farm has been battling high temperatures in July that are causing some stress to their growing durum, flax, and other crops. “The week of the Fourth of July did...
Medical fascism in Tennessee: Pregnant woman denied treatment for being unmarried
The Tennessee State Capitol stands in Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 22, 2024. [AP Photo/George Walker IV]A pregnant woman in Tennessee was recently denied prenatal care because her doctor did not approve of her unwed status. The 35-year-old woman, who...

Republicans plan to use the threat of impeachment as a key midterm issue
WASHINGTON — Impeachment may be nothing that Donald Trump wants, but it is shaping up to be a galvanizing midterm election issue that preserves his party’s control of Congress, Republican strategists said. Seldom do sitting presidents pick up...

Nuclear Energy Newcomers Electrify Final Day Of Enercom's 30Th Anniversary Energy Investment Conference
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Five Nuclear Companies to Present at EnerCom Denver – The Energy Investment Conference Qualified Investors, Analysts and Energy Industry Professionals Can Register at No Cost at DENVER, July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- EnerCom,...

‘Money commons’: review of the Collaborative Finance (CoFi) Gathering
Katja Durrani of Bristol Commons and Lowimpact.org went along to the third annual Collaborative Finance Gathering in Austria, June 16-20. It’s an annual event – everyone welcome. Alternative finance is crucial for building a successful commons...