Rachel Cramer
ReporterRachel is a UM grad working in the MTPR news department.
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Eighty-five veterans Thursday received the single shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine in Glasgow, Montana. The shots were part of nearly 10,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine distributed by Montana Veteran Affairs since December.
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Another Montanan faces federal charges for his alleged involvement with the insurgency at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Isaac Sturgeon, a lawn care business owner from Dillon, was arrested at JFK Airport in New York on Saturday.
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Montana hit two milestones Friday in the COVID-19 pandemic. One: the number of fully immunized Montanans surpassed the threshold of 100,000 people, about 10 percent of the state’s population.
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A variant strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been detected for the first time in Montana.
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Yellowstone National Park Tuesday said it will try out a new reservation system for two campgrounds and part of a third.
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With the majority of jurisdictions halfway through the current COVID-19 vaccination phase, the state is expanding who is eligible for a shot with a special “plus” category starting Monday.
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The U.S. government Sunday started distributing nearly 4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single shot COVID-19 vaccine to states, tribes and territories. Montana is expected to receive 8,700 doses later this week.
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Yellowstone National Park will start closing roads to oversnow travel Sunday to allow for spring plowing. Some park services have already been reduced.
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As two more Montana counties move closer to joining a rail authority in an effort to create passenger service for the southern half of the state, Montana’s Democratic Senator is trying to get more federal funding that would bring back daily service for the Hi Line.
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From bridges to skyscrapers, concrete is ubiquitous in modern, human-built environments. It’s durable and cheap but also a big contributor to climate change, and some of the materials used to make it are getting scarcer. Researchers at Montana State University are trying to develop a sustainable alternative with microorganisms.