The 56th annual Kyiyo Pow Wow took place in Missoula over the weekend. MTPR’s Victoria Traxler has more on the sights, sounds and significance of the event.

The Best Beginnings Scholarship Program offers Montana families financial support for child care costs. But, cultural differences make it difficult for some tribal communities to qualify for the program.

Anyone can make art, but not everyone can afford to. That’s a problem a year-old Missoula nonprofit is working to solve.

Voters in several Montana school districts will soon decide the outcome of various local board races and levy issues. School officials are hoping for more support than they found last spring.

County commissioners in Butte last week approved a 600 acre land sale to a company aiming to build a large data center.

Montana’s two largest universities are bracing for a gravitational shift in how college athletics are regulated. A pending court settlement is expected to allow schools to pay student athletes for the first time.

Dozens of service providers from dentists and doctors to public defenders packed the Missoula Public Library earlier this month. They offered a one-stop-shop for residents in need as the city begins to close one of its homeless shelters.

Tracy Stone-Manning was the Director of the Bureau of Land Management under President Biden, where she oversaw the agency’s 248 million acres. Her career began in Montana, running the Clark Fork Coalition in Missoula for almost a decade and heading up the state’s environmental quality agency under Gov. Steve Bullock. She is now the president of the Wilderness Society. She sat down with Montana Public Radio’s Ellis Juhlin to discuss what's happening and how land management has changed from her time directing the BLM, to now.

Lawmakers rejected the second of two bills seeking to expand the state’s childcare scholarship program, Best Beginnings.

Measles has been detected in Montana for the first time in 35 years. There are five cases confirmed so far. County health officials expect case numbers to rise among the unvaccinated.