Photo provided by Cameron Abell, Billings Firefighters Finally, Firefighters Secure the Protection They Deserve After 20 Years of Fighting Gov. Steve Bullock will sign the firefighter health and safety bill into law on Thursday, April 18. Finally, the men and...

Wild Horse Island State Park. All photos by August Schield We reminisce as extra resources bolster our parks During the summer of 2018, Prairie Populist covered every corner of the state, visiting Montana’s grand state parks. We quickly realized the...

Participants in a saw class in 2017. Photo courtesy of Cameron Abell, Billings Firefighters A Tired Refrain: Fighting for Obvious Health Coverage There is a sentence in the first article Prairie Populist published about the Firefighter Health and Safety Bill...

Feature photo of Keilah Spriggs, Darel Spriggs, Hope Spriggs, and Scott Cameron. Photos by August Schield. Hearing Set for Feb. 19 at Montana State Capitol We at Prairie Populist watched Keilah Spriggs, age 2, fall in love with Painted Rocks...

Bill is only a patch on the problem, but any funding helps Terry Gauthier has been using state parks ever since he can remember. He told Prairie Populist that when he was a kid, his family had enough money to...

Haven’t read our previous coverage on firefighters? Read our article about Jason Baker and his fight against cancer here. It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while, the state legislature takes on a bill that is really a...