Poplar News

Rose Marie Harden Welch, 63, of Great Falls and formerly of Wolf Point, died of natural causes Tuesday at her home.

Northeast Montana Health Services received the 2009 Innovation in Health Care Award from the Montana Health Care Association for NEMHSa tele-pharmacies. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Montana Health Care Association.

Write-in candidate Greg Norgaard beat out two candidates to be Poplar's mayor. With 115 votes, he handily defeated Theresa Murray and Vance Christiansen whose names were on the ballot.

POPLAR - Incumbent Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribal Chairman A.T. "Rusty" Stafne will be sworn into office today along with 14 other candidates who won seats in the tribe's bi-annual election Saturday.

On November 7th there will be an MMA amateur fight card in Poplar Montana. It will be the the first such event ever showcased in this small town on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

On its current pace, the Fort Peck/Dry Prairie Regional Water Project will have spent the $40 million in recovery act money it was allocated a few months before the September 2011 deadline.

WOLF POINT - More than 40 crewmembers worked through the night in hopes of reopening a rail line today after 13 cars from a BNSF Railway Co.

WOLF POINT - Lois Fern Reddies, 75, died of natural causes Tuesday at her home in Wolf Point.

Fort Peck Reservation voters will elect their tribal council and consider significant changes to their constitution, including creating a separate judicial branch, in next month's election.

WOLF POINT - Donna Mae "Bonnie" Nelson, 74, of Wolf Point, a homemaker who was active in Blue Sky Ministries, died of natural causes Saturday in Wolf Point.

BROCKTON - Mathew James Big Talk Sr., 62, whose Indian name means "Brave Bear," and who had worked for A&S Tribal Industries and as a custodian at Brockton School and enjoyed hunting, fishing and making Native American ceremonial items, died of complications from heart disease Monday at a Poplar hospital.

WOLF POINT - Two men killed in car crashes last week in Roosevelt County have been identified.

An open house is set to for Saturday, Aug. 15 to celebrate the multimillion dollar renovation of Wolf Point's Trinity Hospital.

An open house is set to for Saturday, Aug. 15 to celebrate the multimillion dollar renovation of Wolf Point's Trinity Hospital.

Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch is hosting the 17th Annual Montana/Wyoming Native American Youth Leadership and Education Workshop, July 27-30. Sixty adolescents and teens are expected to participate in "Honoring Strong Native Youth in Spirit, Pride and Leadership" with activities designed to promote decision-making and develop leadership skills ...

A Poplar man was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison for stabbing a man to death in 2002 on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

POPLAR - A Lloyd couple may appear in District Court in Wolf Point today after being accused of selling marijuana-laced treats to kids at Poplar's annual Wild West Days event this past weekend, authorities said.

Two people accused of selling marijuana-laced treats from a trailer parked behind a kids' tattoo booth at a community fair in Poplar have been arrested.

The annual Whoop-Up Trail Days celebration, which wraps up today in Conrad, is the unofficial kickoff of summer celebrations in Montana, and the revelry and rodeos will continue almost nonstop well into August.

POPLAR - When alcohol and drug counselor Eloise Youngman saw a young woman's broken arm in a sling for the second time in as many months, she knew exactly what was wrong: The injured woman was a pain pill addict.