Several new wildfires spark, grow quickly in NW Montana
网页2023年7月31日 · The Big Knife Fire outside of Arlee, Montana, on the afternoon of Sunday, July 30, 2023. (Photo by Nicole Girten, Daily Montanan) Around 30 new wildfires started in Montana over the past 24 hours, some of which forced evacuations Sunday, and at least five active fires have topped 1,000 acres in the drought-stricken western part of the state.
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网页3 天之前 · The Daily Montanan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan source for trusted news, commentary and insight into statewide policy and politics beneath the Big Sky. We’re part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Our stories may be republished online or in print under …
Active. Dormant. Extinct. Know your volcano vocabulary
网页2022年12月13日 · Volcanologists use that term as shorthand for “potentially active,” so a “dormant” volcano is one that is not erupting now, but that is considered “active” because it could erupt in the future. Mount Hood is an active volcano that is currently dormant. Kīlauea is an active volcano that is currently erupting.
Coming soon to a library near you? Book wars and the battle of …
网页2022年1月22日 · Book wars and the battle of banning literature. Two library directors, weeks of controversy and hundreds of comments later, Kalispell is no closer to deciding what to do with the book “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe. Last week, Kalispell’s Public Library board decided to indefinitely suspend conversation about “Gender Queer,” one of two ...
Montanans line up to vote on Election Day • Daily Montanan
网页2022年11月8日 · Montanans can still register to vote on Election Day, in part due to a lawsuit that several organizations waged against a law passed by the 2021 Legislature which set the registration deadline earlier. Statewide, absentee ballots were being returned at a slower pace than in 2018, according to the Montana Secretary of State’s Office.
Snowpack at record-low levels to start 2024 across much of …
网页2024年1月10日 · Montana statewide snowpack as of Jan. 10, 2024. (Graphic by USDA/NRCS) While a multi-day blast of Arctic air will bring below-zero temperatures across the state for the next several days, and a few inches of snow, particularly in western Montana, forecasters said in a report released on Jan. 1 that most mountain ranges’ snowpack was only ...
Darrell Ehrlick - Daily Montanan
网页2024年9月12日 · Darrell Ehrlick is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Montanan, after leading his native state’s largest paper, The Billings Gazette. He is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and teacher, whose career has taken him to North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, and Wyoming. With Darrell at the helm, the Gazette staff took Montana’s top newspaper award six times in seven years.
Top 10 Daily Montanan stories of 2023
网页2023年12月31日 · By: Daily Montanan Staff - December 31, 2023 7:11 am. Most of the Held v. Montana plaintiffs and their attorneys pose outside the courtroom for photos halfway through the trial. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan) This year, Rep. Zooey Zephyr made headlines that rippled far beyond Montana, property taxes are causing residents to …
Publisher wins fight to keep her weekly newspaper in northeastern ...
网页2021年9月5日 · Darla Downs, owner and publisher of the Northern Plains Independent in Wolf Point, Montana. In this Aug. 24, 2021 picture she stands in front of the building where a new door and flooring are being installed to update the newspaper office which had been closed since May 2019 (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of …
Senate passes Fort Belknap water compact settlement that …
网页2024年6月20日 · With late-season irrigation now under threat along the Hi-Line after the failure of the St. Mary Canal earlier this week, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to pass a long-awaited water compact settlement with the Fort Belknap Indian Community that includes $275 million to rehabilitate the canal as part of the Milk River Project.. The Senate voted by unanimous consent to pass the Fort Belknap ...