Six more residents of a corrections facility in Billings have tested positive for COVID-19 amid a steep rise in cases in the county where it’s located.

A group of unlikely bedfellows is trying to drum up support for a plan it says will reduce conflict in the Crazy Mountains and improve access to public land in southwest Montana. The plan includes land swaps and a new trail.

“Truth has become the casualty of our addiction to agendas and opinions and rapid-fire tweets.”  - Stephen Jimenez

Over the past two decades, Stephen Jimenez has spent extended periods of time in Wyoming researching, reporting, and writing about the Matthew Shepard tragedy. For his reporting on the case he won the Writers Guild of America Award and the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is the author of The Book of Matt: The Real Story of the Murder of Matthew Shepard.

It's Monday, July 13th. The Northwest Montana State Fair and Rodeo, state guidance on how to reopen schools in the fall and the next installment of our series on the Little Shell Tribe.

The Montana State-Tribal Relations Committee is seeking public comment on nine bill proposals related to runaway youth, motor carrier services, missing persons and federal recognition of the Little Shell Tribe.

Roughly six months ago, the federal government officially recognized the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians as a sovereign nation. It was national news then. But what does it mean now for the members and descendants of Little Shell? Nine students from the University of Montana School of Journalism spent a semester reporting on the impact of recognition on what has long been considered Montana’s “landless tribe.” This story is part of the student-produced series, Project Little Shell.

It's February, about two months after the tribe received the federal recognition it had sought for more than 130 years. Linda Watson is shuffling papers at her desk at the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians' headquarters in Great Falls. She's received a lot of phone calls recently.