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The University of Montana’s Mansfield Center is set to lose a $6 million federal grant due to Trump Administration cuts. The Mansfield Center used the grant for programs that advanced civic education and patriotic ideals.

The Montana Nurses Association and Community Medical Center in Missoula announced Friday they agreed to a new union contract. Montana Tech has been awarded $6.5 million from the Department of Defense to fund workforce development in the mining industry.

Montana legislators are urging Congress to help fund a program to extract rare earth minerals from the contaminated waters of Butte’s Berkeley Pit. The Environmental Quality Council is penning a letter asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to hold off on approving a clean-up plan for a superfund site in Columbia Falls.

Officials with Butte’s lone active copper mine said it has a commercially-viable process to extract rare earth minerals from the contaminated waters of the Berkeley Pit.

One-hundred-fifty nuclear missiles in central Montana are scheduled for replacement. Air Force officials visited the region this week to explain the project and answer questions. "Project Sentinel" is expected to hire up to 3,000 people as missiles installed across the West during the 1960s are replaced.

A U.S. Department of Defense report says the National Guard’s suicide rate is higher than its active duty and Reserve counterparts. DoD says there are…