Governor Steve Bullock headlined a press conference on Wednesday introducing a new media campaign in cooperation with the Montana Broadcasters Association to raise awareness of suicide in Montana.
At the Montana Legislature's House Appropriations budget hearing on Wednesday morning, Director of the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, Sheila Hogan, had harsh words for what she termed drastic budget cuts to her department.
The Montana State-Tribal Relations Committee met on Monday and agreed to write a letter of opposition concerning the way that Montana DPHHS is spending $2,500 in Indian Youth Suicide Prevention Grants from the 2015 legislature.
Scientists at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton have been busy doing research on the emerging Zika virus since before the World Health Organization recently declared it an emergency.