4 weeks ago Many residents of Billings resent their tax dollars being used to construct paved bike paths. Some believe they are being built to someone’s idea of “greenhouse gas” requirements. Others see the City of Billings with a budget shortfall and consider bike lanes as a luxury when we should be tightening our belts just like families have been during a down economy
4 weeks ago The Billings Clinic is hoping to create an internal medicine residency program in an attempt to produce doctors that will remain in Montana and help relieve a statewide doctor shortage.
If the program is approved, it would open for the first class of students in July 2014 and produce as many as six doctors a year! Most counties in the state have a shortage of primary care physicians, and 10 counties have no physician at all!
The clinic last fall applied for accreditation from the Chicago-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
4 weeks ago Governor Steve Bullock on Thursday allowed an abortion bill to become law without his signature, a strategic gamble that anticipates a successful legal challenge of the measure and kills an identical referendum that would have gone to voters in 2014.
4 weeks ago If you have ever attended an event at MetraPark, then chances are you have seen Jeanie Chick.
5 weeks ago Anyone who knows me knows I'm an environmentalist. Not the "tie yourself to a tree" type of environmentalist but the garden variety "if there is something that won't inconvenience me to much and save me some money at the same time I should do my part" kind of environmentalist
April 10, 2013 Our state’s main spending bill cleared a Senate committee Tuesday with a few changes and is headed to the full floor. The $9 billion budget bill was endorsed by an 11-9 margin in Senate Finance and Claims Committee, with a mix of Democrats and Republicans opposing it
April 9, 2013 The founder of Farm Rescue has launched a foundation to further the cause of helping farmers stricken by major illnesses, ailments or disasters.
April 3, 2013 Your risk of heart attack is higher if you wake up very early and if you work more than eleven hours a day, it’s even worse! That's not good news for hard working Montana folks!
April 2, 2013 My daughter is a funny kid. I was looking through some old facebook posts and my wife was talking about how creative she was and a friend reminded us of my daughters google search: How To Fake Being Sick to try to get out of going
April 1, 2013 The Bigfork School District here in Montana plans to spend $17,900 to improve security at our schools' buildings.
March 29, 2013 A Hamilton Montana woman has been convicted of making marijuana-infused candy that a young girl distributed on a school bus.
March 28, 2013 Under an important new law, out-of-state sex offenders living in Montana will be required to submit a DNA sample to be included in a state-wide sex offender DNA database.
