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Federal regulators last year criticized the Montana health department as “severely out of compliance” with rules that require applications for nutrition assistance to be processed in a timely manner, according to reporting from Montana Free Press.
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Local governments in Montana are receiving federal money to expand composting and food waste reduction projects. Montana’s K-12 education agency is looking for a new way to pay for a major college readiness exam. Missoula’s airport set a new passenger record in 2023 and officials expect another strong showing this year.
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Montana is forecast to be the hot spot in the United States for grasshoppers this summer. Officials forecast swarms of grasshoppers to hatch east of the Continental Divide.
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The federal government is sending more than $800,000 to Montana to further economic development in rural and tribal communities. Agricultural producers in a handful of Montana counties are now eligible for federal emergency loans.
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New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows winter wheat planting and emergence are lower throughout Montana then there were this time last year.
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Montana environmental officials are making close to a million dollars in grants available for water quality projects across the state. A new pool of federal funding is available for Montana farmers to fund projects working to mitigate and address climate change.
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Rural businesses and agriculture producers in Montana have been awarded $1.3 million in federal grants to become more energy efficient. A nonprofit organization said an anonymous tip led them to recover a missing piece of expensive monitoring equipment from the Big Hole river last week.
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The federal government has declared Flathead and Lincoln counties as primary natural disaster areas due to ongoing drought.
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The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) are planning to build a local meat processing plant to expand services for local hunters and ranchers.
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Warmer than normal temperatures last month resulted in rapid snowmelt throughout much of the state. That has some experts hoping for a very wet June to help bolster projected streamflows as we head into the drier summer months.