MIN Midweek News Roundup

March 13, 2025

Sandhill cranes in Carbon County March 13, 2025. (Credit: Denise Rivette)

SPRING IS SPRINGING

Although we’re due for more rounds of snow before Spring actually arrives, there are a few events that let Carbon County know that Spring is headed our way. The arrival of sandhill cranes is one of those harbingers. This photo was taken in Carbon County on March 13, 2025. Snow returns tonight.

An active weather pattern will continue through next week. Many details remain uncertain. Be sure to monitor the forecast at weather.gov/billings

Skier Succumbs to Injuries from Fall at Red Lodge Mountain

Montana Delegation's Proposed Ban on Russian Dumping of Critical Minerals First Step Towards Reopening Closed Mine

Montana State Elks Association and Beartooth Elks Lodge #534 Work with Neighbors and Veterans’ Associations to Help Local Disabled Veteran

Commentary: My Cow Friend, Buffalo, Stood Beside Me Throughout My Farming Career; Now I’ve Had to Say Goodbye

Red Lodge Songwriter Festival Returns to Red Lodge for Its 9th Annual Celebration of Songwriting

A cattle roundup is pictured at Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Station near Miles City. (USDA photo, Jack Dykinga)

Montana Legislators Propose Outlawing Lab-Grown Meat Products

Poll: 3 in 4 Montanans Concerned About Being Able to Afford Housing Over the Next Five Years

Dead Zone: Millions in US Live in Places Where Doctors Don’t Practice and Telehealth Doesn’t Reach

Senate Bill Could Establish Chaplain Program for Montana Public Schools

Abortion restriction based on environmental impacts fails in Montana

Claims court endorsed by Montana Senate

Without Federal Action, States Like Montana Wrestle with Kratom Regulation

Wide Open Table: Bangers and biscuits

Rhododendron flowers in the Carpathian Mountains, Western Ukraine (Misha Reme, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

Why Ukraine, Once the World's Third Largest Nuclear Power, Gave Up Its Arsenal and Why America is Now Obligated to Defend Ukraine and Its Borders

Presidential Message on National K-9 Veterans Day, 2025

Poll Finds Support for Stable or Increased Medicaid Funding, Including Among Trump Voters

Former Yellowstone, Rushmore, Badlands superintendents say DOGE wiped out a generation of leaders

Trump Administration Seeks to Unravel NEPA, Reducing Power to Regulate Federal Action

Daines Leads Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Increase American Hydropower

MRNA Vaccines, Once a Trump Boast, Now Face Attacks From Some in GOP

Sheehy Proposes New Wildland Fire Response Time, Centralization Bill