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Finding veterinarians in rural communities, especially vets that work with large animals is becoming more and more difficult.  Because of this growing problem, several western schools have teams up to try to address the problem for farm country.  Michael...

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and attorneys general from 23 other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Waters of the U.S. Rule.  The group says the EPA’s WOTUS rule “goes beyond the power Congress delegated in the Clean Water Act, raises serious constitutional concerns, and runs roughshod over the Administrative Procedures Act.”   “The administrati...

Last week, the Northwest Agriculture Business Center announced Jake Fray as the new Southwest Washington regional director.  Fray takes over for Mike Peroni who is transitioning to Executive Director of the organization.     Fray grew up in the small community of Adna, where his family settled in 1862.  Not only did he work on the...

Earlier this week, the Bureau of Land Management announced a public meeting to solicit feedback on utility-scale solar energy planning.  BLM is considering updates to its 2012 Western Solar Plan that included six southwestern states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.  On top ...

(Joplin, MT) -- The Amtrak passenger train that derailed in central Montana last month was operating at a safe speed, and its emergency braking system was in good working order--according to investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board ...

Amtrak now facing a lawsuit from the wife of a man killed in last weekends deadly derailment of a Seattle-bound train. Rebecca Schneider said her husband Zach's death was a "preventable tragedy." The lawsuit says Zach Schneider was in the viewing car and the accident caused him to be "violently tossed about inside ...

KALISPELL, Mont. - Health officials in Montana have confirmed their first death related to the coronavirus. The virus claimed the life of a 77 year old man, a retired teacher from Walla Walla. The man came back from a vacation trip to California, with a cough and a cold ...