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Blaine County Students Explore College Programs at TekNoXpo
Student groups from both Chinook High School and Turner Public Schools travelled to Montana State University—Northern (MSUN) on Wednesday, October 8, for the TekNoXpo & ShowCASE held in Havre. Check-in for the event began at 8:00 a.m. and session...

Woodford Folk Festival 2025-26 Line-Up
The 2025-26 Woodford Folk Festival will be the 38th edition of the event, with more than 1,500 opportunities to take part. Woodford invites festival goers to embark on a six-day journey of participation, creativity, and connection. Nestled on 500...

Wildlife Tracking Animations Reveal Insights into Animal Movement Patterns
In the rapidly evolving field of ecology, understanding animal behavior and movement in their natural habitats remains an invaluable yet challenging endeavor. Researchers at The Ohio State University have pioneered the development of an innovative...

A Spotted Coat of Concealment
A Spotted Coat of Concealment By Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga It’s time for Field Notes, brought to you by the Montana Natural History Center. Summer brings more than blue skies and hot days to Montana. It’s during this time of the year that...
Youth deer hunt begins Thursday; big game season to follow
Montana’s youth deer-only hunt kicks off the beginning of expanded seasons across the state. The youth hunt, which does not include elk, will be held Thursday and Friday, coinciding with the state’s annual two-day teachers’ convention, which are...

Russia’s Coal Collapse Marks The End Of Fossil Fuels’ Post-War Illusion
Workers secure coal supplies loaded into freight wagons before shipping at the Sibirginsky open pit coal mine operated by OAO Mechel Mining, a unit of OAO Mechel, near Myski, Kemerovo region, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The company, which...

The Sonoma County connection to an off-the-grid Nobel Prize winner
By the time Fred Ramsdell heard the news Oct. 6 while camping in Montana that he had won a Nobel Prize, he had hundreds of messages waiting for him, including from a company he helped start that has a Sonoma County connection. Ramsdell, who...

RIP NEPA: Don’t Mourn NEPA’s Death, Replace It With Something Stronger
Mountain goat nanny and kids. Glacier National Park, Montana. Our leaders are letting the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) die. But, maybe that’s okay. It’s time for a National Environmental Protection Act. By the 1960s,...

Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change
This story was originally published by Grist. Kate Yoder Grist This summer, national park employees and visitors were asked to do something highly unusual: report any signs that failed to make America look great. The effort, stemming from an...

'Meat n' Greet': Bigfoot enthusiasts set to unite at 25th annual conference in Texas
Bigfoot enthusiasts are set to gather for the 25th Texas Bigfoot Conference this weekend. The event is hosted by the Texas Bigfoot Research Center each year. The Texas Bigfoot Research Center exists to validate what we believe to be an...
15 Democratic Governors Announce Health Alliance To Counter RFK Jr.
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Democratic governors of 14 states and the territory of Guam on Oct. 15 announced a new coalition they said will provide scientific information to counter Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

Ultimate guide to buying a combine 2026
Those buying new combines usually upgrade to additional capacity, and there has been a strong move towards rotary and hybrid models replacing traditional straw walker machines – except where gentle straw handling is the priority for baling. See...

The 10 Best Action Movies to Stream on Netflix Right Now
Call it escapism, call it wanderlust, call it living vicariously through the lives of kick-ass covert spies and kung-fu masters—our love for action movies is primal. Nothing pairs with a giant bowl of popcorn quite like the combination of martial...

Solar storm alert issued TODAY as officials warn several US states about power disruptions
By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Published: 17:18 EDT, 1 October 2025 | Updated: 17:19 EDT, 1 October 2025 A moderate geomagnetic storm watch was issued on Wednesday after holes appeared on the sun. Geomagnetic storms are...

Class Act: Joliet's Auston Schellig – perfect on PSAT, ACT – eyes XC title
JOLIET — Auston Schellig loves to challenge himself. "I'm just a pretty competitive person," Schellig recently told MTN Sports. It doesn’t matter whether he’s running underneath the fall colors decorating Main Street in Joliet, or challenging his...

Mitigating risk to rights with age verification: Privacy-preserving guardrails that should accompany deployments of age verification approaches
Around the world, age verification tools are popping up more and more frequently. In the UK, in the aftermath of the enactment of the Online Safety Act, users have been required to to submit identity documents or have their faces scanned to access...

Adrian Sutton, composer who wrote the music for War Horse, the classic National Theatre production
Adrian Sutton, who has died aged 58, wrote the poignant music for War Horse, the National Theatre’s celebrated 2007 play based on Michael Morpurgo’s emotionally charged novel about a young boy called Albert and his horse Joey set against the...

UM’s Medieval Combat Society wants you to wallop your friends
Members of the medieval combat club practice their skills on the Oval during their semiweekly practices. (Date coming soon) Contributed Photo The University of Montana’s Medieval Combat Society has returned for another semester of foam-coated...

Texas appoints state’s first chief AI and innovation officer
Texas on Wednesday appointed its first chief AI and innovation officer, naming Tony Sauerhoff to lead a new AI division inside the Texas Department of Information Resources. Tony Sauerhoff Sauerhoff steps into the role after serving for one year...

‘Four-way’ solar storm hurtling towards Earth - set to strike in just HOURS
Four powerful bursts of solar energy is making its way toward Earth, raising alarms of technological disruptions. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared a moderate geomagnetic storm alert for today, cautioning that...