Health

Montana's first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will go to health care workers in the state's major hospitals.

U.S. health regulators have posted a positive review of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine as they near a decision on whether to allow use of the shot.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said Wednesday that the state could receive around 9,750 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by drug company Pfizer as soon as Dec. 15.

If you've travelled the state or talked to folks around Montana, whether it is folks working in the schools, or working in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities- they will all tell you what a Godsend these National Guard soldiers and airmen have been.

Enrollment in Montana's K-8 public schools is down nearly 4% this Fall, according to numbers released by the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction. Homeschool numbers, meanwhile, are up by almost 63%.

Flathead County's interim public health officer will resign at the end of the year.

The Center for Disease Control has already recommended that Americans avoid traveling for Thanksgiving, and any in-person celebrating should only be done "at home with the people you live with."

Earlier this week, Governor Bullock announced that additional restrictions for the state of Montana will go into effect tomorrow (Friday) to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced yesterday that additional measures to help "curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Montana" will go into effect beginning this Friday

I see both sides of the argument. For the customer, he thinks masks are ridiculous, and for the employees, they are just doing their jobs.

But, according to the press release, Felton said that more restrictions could still be implemented if the COVID-19 infections begin to increase.

Your poem could become sidewalk art, if your literary composition is selected for a new project that hopes to make neighborhoods on the south side more "welcoming and walkable."