This isn’t your grandpa’s apprenticeship program Montanans are a hard-working bunch of folks. Year after year, we endure calving season or fall harvest. Week after week, we toil through 12-hour hospital shifts or 10-hour days operating heavy machinery. We are...

Reclamation Projects Bring Jobs to Montana Communities Our grandparents may not have known about the unintended consequences of channelizing streams, but we certainly do. Today, Montanans from Eureka to the Ruby are taking in information and finding ways to help...

RANGE RIDERS IN THE UPPER RUBY CONTINUE A MONTANA RANCHING TRADITION. “So why the heck do you want to do a story on us?” That was the first thing that Tel Miller said, other than a kind hello, as we...

Reporting from Day 13 of the Three Forks talc mill lockout; there is no end in sight Ferguson Gammon’s wife, Carly, is going to have a baby in mid-September. Ferguson is going to lose the family’s health insurance at the...

Judith Gap was the first Wind Farm in Montana, but its impact continues into the future You could fit a half-ton full-cab at the top of Judith Gap’s windmills. The ninety towering structures have made quite the impact on central...

There’s a fair bit of construction going on across Central Montana this summer. That’s not too surprising -- it is construction season, after all. But if you look closely, you’ll see that the work happening in and around Harlowton isn’t...

Eastern Montana’s Small Business Development Centers Support Rural Communities Where do you go to get your truck fixed, to have your implements altered, or to get your hair cut? Chances are, it’s a local place. Many of our towns’ jobs...

What is it like to work just out of Yellowstone National Park? “It’s nice when we get quiet because we’re busy, and it’s nice when we get busy because we’re bored.” That’s how Dan Reger described working a seasonal service...

Montana Bred, Montana Fed Decades ago, Dexter and Karla Buck asked themselves the same questions that farmers and ranchers across Montana are asking themselves today: How do we take the products grown and raised here and add value to them...

Montana's newest food truck opens on the Hi-Line. Havre is the hub of an agricultural region that ships wheat, lentils, chickpeas, grains, and cattle across the country and around the world. These farmers and ranchers, and the businesses in Havre...