Election Day 2018. What went down and who showed up?   1. 87.44% Reported By Thursday morning, Montana precincts had only reported 87.44% of their ballots, with many close elections across the state. According to the Montana Secretary of State...

Farm Bill’s Conservation Programs Make Farmers and Ranchers Strong Conservationists The conservation programs featured in the federal farm bill have helped Montana’s farmers and ranchers become some of our state’s best conservationists. Those same conservation programs are designed to help...

Every American citizen age 18 years or older has the right to vote. But each state in this great union makes its own rules when it comes to who, what, when, where and how voting happens. Who can vote? What...

Throughout the next month, join us at Prairie Populist as we highlight some of the people from Montana’s history that embodied the values of freedom, independence, and resilience.  Click HERE to browse this series. America’s First Female Representative Stood Her Ground...

By Guest Writer, Gerald Martin A thick pall of smoke hung heavy in the tent, acrid fumes burning my bleary eyes as I tried to determine what was happening. A blustery wind buffeted the canvas. With each gust, another belch...

Throughout the next month, join us at Prairie Populist as we highlight some of the people from Montana’s history that embodied the values of freedom, independence, and resilience.  Click HERE to browse this series. When policymakers cozy up with the businesses...

Throughout the next month, join us at Prairie Populist as we highlight some of the people from Montana’s history that embodied the values of freedom, independence, and resilience.  Click HERE to browse this series. How Three Rural Newspaper Editors Took on...

Lone Pine State Park is a fun destination, all year round! The warmer months are a time to explore our state, and at Prairie Populist we’re joining the thousands of Montanans visiting the amazing lands, lakes, and historical sites that make...

Montana’s Populist History Relived and Repeated We Montanans don’t take kindly to other folks telling us how to live and what to think. We live as we want and we think as we please. That’s the way we like it...

Slippery Ann Wildlife Viewing Area is Better Than a Drive-In Movie The changing colors leave many Montanans focused on one thing: elk. Elk season -- arguably the best time of the year here in Big Sky Country -- is in...

Ruby Valley Produced Upset Winner; Bets Taken Now on Bolt D’Oro   Before tractors, hydraulic combines, dirt bikes, and trucks, we Montanans relied on horses for every aspect of life: combining wheat in the fall, tilling the land in the...

There’s Many Fish in the Sea, But There’s Only One Big Spring Creek Lewistown, Montana has some of the most pristine water in the entire country. Big Spring Creek -- the main source of their water supply -- originates seven...

The Value of Agriculture: Welcome to the Ruby Valley Story and Photos by August Schield In Montana, people are bound together by a common landscape. It is the single most underlying substance that all life shares. Air and animals. People...

Lawmaker questions whether violence against nurses is really a problem after hearing directly from nurses The recent violent arrest of a nurse in a Salt Lake City hospital, caught on police video, reminded the world what a dangerous job it...

Feature photo courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management These days, you can easily drive from Billings to Glendive without stopping. At 80 miles per hour, the plains are a blur. But should you choose to slow down, you may...

Written by Laura Nowlin. Feature photo by Reba Ahlgren I have read several stories recently that make life in rural America seem pretty dismal – the population is aging and decreasing, everyone is poorly educated and addicted to drugs, and the land is either not...

Hard Work, Ambition, and Community I’ve lived in Montana my entire life, and the first thing from Montana I ever heard mentioned on TV was Butte. It was mispronounced (as “Butt, Montana”), but it still was on television. I was...

RANCHERS : THE LOCAL CONSERVATIONISTS Story and Photos by August Schield Ranchers are the local conservationists in the Ruby Valley. Here, conservation isn’t only a part of the culture, but also a part of the community. Meet Rick Sandru and...