Voices of Montana

Episode

DPHHS Update On The Montana State Hospital

The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs has been rolling over rough waters of late, with difficulties maintaining staff, a COVID-19 outbreak that claimed the lives of four patients, and, most recently, a loss of Medicare funding. Listen to the […]

Are We A Step Closer To Energy Independence?

You almost don’t want to call it a win-win, since it may sound too good to be true. But a new pipeline that just opened in Southeast Montana will simultaneously extract untapped oil in the Cedar Creek Anticline by using […]

How Is Rural Montana Making The Most Of New Federal Funding?

Montana has received billions of federal dollars in recent years. The question now is how exactly it’s being spent? The USDA Rural Development program in Montana is taking major steps in updating communities’ broadband, mental health and meat packing development […]

Wading Through The Montana Waters

It’s been said that whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting, and we’ve seen plenty of fighting across Montana in recent decades. Montana’s rural water systems recently received over $100 million of new bureau of reclamation funding while the conflict […]

Catalyst for Change – A Model for Rural Mental Health

How can you help your rural community overcome mental health challenges? First, ask people how they are doing and get “Beyond The Weather.” Second, listen in as we talk to Amber Martinsen-Blake, Founder and Executive Director for Catalyst for Change. […]

Mark Wahlberg Interview

Academy Award nominated Actor Mark Wahlberg recently stopped by Helena for an exclusive screening of his new film Father Stu, which details the life of real-life Montanan Stuart Long from a street brawler to a Helena priest. Ahead of his […]