WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following commentary on May 8, 2024: * * * How Mentoring is Reaching New Teachers in Rural Alaska By Abigail Swisher, Rural Impact Fellow, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Spanning 37,000 miles across Alaska, the Northwest Arctic Borough School District has struggled to hire and retain enough new teachers. The eleven villages within the district - many of them above the Arctic Circle - are sparsely populated and rem  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: First Citizens Bank of Butte, Butte, Montana Written Agreement dated May 2, 2024 Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here (https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/enforcementactions/search.aspx). For media inquiries, please email media@frb.gov or call 202-452-2955. View Attachment at: https  more

HELENA, Montana, May 8 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on May 6, 2024: Today, Governor Greg Gianforte encouraged Montana students in grades 3 to 12 to participate in America's Field Trip, a nationwide scholastic contest designed to engage youth in commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. "Montanans are proud to be American, and it is important for us to instill this patriotic spirit in the next generation," Gov.  more

BILLINGS, Montana, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: A Lodge Grass man who admitted running a large-scale, multi-state methamphetamine trafficking organization from his home on the Crow Indian Reservation and beating a woman with a weapon was sentenced today to 15 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. The defendant, Wendell Monroe Lefthand, 55,  more

BILLINGS, Montana, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: A Lodge Grass woman accused of trafficking methamphetamine as part of large-scale, multi-state conspiracy that was based on the Crow Indian Reservation admitted to a drug crime on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today. Sayra Longfox, 26, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute meth. Longfox faces a mandatory minimum of five years t  more

BILLINGS, Montana, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: A Washington woman who admitted to working as a translator and helping a co-defendant sell meth in a large trafficking scheme based on the Crow Indian Reservation was sentenced today to three years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. The defendant, Mariana Tyler Wallace, 23, of Okanogan, Washingt  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, May 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news on May 7, 2024: * * * The May 2024 water supply outlook report is now available. Learn more about snow water equivalent measurements and water supply forecasting in this month's news release based on Montana snow survey data collected through the SNOTEL system. * * * Well above normal precipitation during April was needed given the meager snowpack conditio  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, May 8 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: Attorney General Alan Wilson led a 24-state coalition in a letter to Congressional leadership, urging Congress to permanently cut all funding to the terrorist-embedded United Nations Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"). On October 7, 2023, dozens of UNRWA staff participated in the largest attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust. UNRWA's ties to terrorism are not just the work of a  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 9 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on May 8, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders, calling on the federal legislative branch to "stop funding United Nations Relief and Works Agency." The letter, which was led by the States of Iowa and South Carolina, issues its demand over the agency's continued and troubling ties to the terror organization Hamas. This letter, sent on May 7, follows a simila  more