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...

Space Foundation now accepting applications for International Teacher Liaison Program

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Space Foundation is accepting applications for its International Teacher Liaison program that provides training to better engage students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The...

NASA Unveils HydroFlame: A New Tool to Predict Wildfire Impacts on Water Resources

NASA has introduced HydroFlame, a new online tool that predicts how wildfires affect water resources. Developed with support from NASA’s Earth Science Division, the tool brings together satellite data, hydrologic modeling, and artificial...

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...

‘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...

UM parking garage’s mysterious musician

James Lee plays saxophone in the parking garage on Oct 9. Lee plays in the parking garage daily. Will Ladyman / Montana Kaimin During the golden hour of Missoula autumn, Brooke Stanley, an environmental science and sustainability major, walked out...

Snowflake and Palantir Announce Strategic Partnership for Enterprise-Ready AI & Analytics

No-Headquarters/BOZEMAN, Mont. & DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 16, 2025-- Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), the industry leading provider of enterprise operating systems, today...

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...

Political whiplash is terrible for wolves’ future. But more is coming

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. There are some 2,700 wolves across Idaho, Montana and Wyoming,...

Time to pivot: Site for expansion is the real threat to Flathead Lake

The recent op-ed by the Flathead Lake Biological Station is a valuable contribution to the ongoing conversation about protecting Flathead Lake. They correctly point out that the proposed wastewater treatment technology, which the Lakeside County...

Mapping Shopify’s Reach: Which States Have the Most Stores per Capita

If you shop online, chances are you’ve bought something from a Shopify store. The platform has quietly become the backbone of American e-commerce. Nearly one in three online stores in the U.S. now runs on Shopify, giving it a presence that’s hard...

Pro/Con: Ban single-use plastics to solve pollution problems

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only practical way forward. Some 430 million metric...

The Georgetown Wooden Boat Show tests amateur boat builders. It's not always smooth sailing.

GEORGETOWN – Something went wrong and it got worse. Father and son, Yang and Yang Scofano II, shrugged while inspecting their 12-foot Carolina Bateau rowing skiff they’d built in nearly four hours during the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show on Oct. 18....

Lawsuit challenging Trump's energy policies dismissed

A federal judge in Montana has thrown out a lawsuit by youth activists seeking to block US President Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel energy policies, saying it asked the court to take on a sweeping role overseeing potentially hundreds of government...

Applied Materials and Arizona State University opening ‘materials-to-fab’ centre

$270 million research, development and prototyping facility inside the university’s MacroTechnology Works at ASU Applied Materials Inc. and Arizona State University (ASU) officially opened a Materials-to-Fab Centre, a shared world-class $270...

U.S. Rejects Lowball Bid for 167 Million Tons of Coal on Public Lands

Federal officials rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton, in what would have been the biggest U.S. government coal sale in more than a decade. The failed sale...

Holiday Travelers, Here's What You Can Expect for This Year's Thanksgiving Forecast

'The Old Farmer's Almanac,' a resource for long-range weather predictions, recently released this year's Thanksgiving forecast. The outlet anticipates a mixed bag of weather across much of the country. Highlights of the holiday forecast include...

Opinion: Bombing Iowa: Some ‘Balloon Bombs,“ launched by Japan, fell in Iowa

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa was bombed by Japan. How is it possible? Iowa is an inland state, 1,500 miles from the coast. How could a Japanese plane get that far and not be...

Timberland Taxidermy Celebrates First Hunts For Young Hunters

The thrill of the hunt will return across Montana with the general rifle season opener next weekend. But youth hunters have a special opportunity to get into the field early one week earlier with the annual youth hunt. Being able to keep the...