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BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – To help fight the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases in Montana, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sending 960 doses of the antiviral treatment Remdesivir to the state on Monday.   The drug has received emergency use authorization by the FDA to treat patients with the virus. Patients who receive the treatment will receive roughly six doses over five days for treatment.

Sen. Steve Daines secured $26,250 for the Headwaters Resource Conservation and Development Area Inc. to research the feasibility of a meat processing operation in Whitehall. The funding comes from the Economic Development Administration and the company that received it is located in Butte. “This critical funding assesses the need for a meat processing operation in Whitehall and will lead to more jobs and opportunities for the folks of Jefferson County,” Daines said in a July 17 press release.

The threat of infection had kept the USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation cooped up in Washington D.C. for months. On July 15 he arrived in Great Falls, noting that his trip to Montana was the first he’d made outside the beltway since last March.   “One of the best parts of the job is to get out of D.C. and be able to get to real farm country,” Under Secretary Bill Northy said to an assemblage of Montana ag producers who gathered at a machine shop on the Bumgarner farm east of Great Falls last Wednesday.  

BILLINGS, Mt. – Early Friday afternoon Crow Tribe Chairman AJ Not Afraid, Senator Daines, Crow Tribe Police and Tribal members took a tour of the empty detention facility in Crow Agency.   The detention center is currently leased by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Crow tribe is looking to take over the lease to utilize the facility as they continue to lack enough holding space to maintain their policing needs on the reservation.   The crow tribal police department wants to clean out and refurbish the empty jail before they open the facility for the police force.   Crow

The Crow Tribal Police and Crow leadership are eyeing a closed Bureau of Indian Affairs jail on the reservation to meet the newly formed police force’s detention needs.   Several administrators with the Crow Tribe, Bureau of Indian Affairs and gathered at the site of a former BIA jail on the Crow Indian Reservation to discuss the possibility of the tribe taking ownership of the jail to book offenders arrested by the new tribal police force.   On Friday, several Crow Tribe administrators, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., toured the facility and discussed the challenges

DOCUMENT DRAWER The FDA has added brucellosis, as well as opisthorchiasis and paragonimiasis, to the list of designated tropical diseases whose product applications may result in the award of priority review vouchers.   Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), in a letter to McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, called for more funding on the development and manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines and drugs in the next coronavirus relief package.   The FDA will have a public advisory committee meeting of the Science Advisory Board to the National Center for Toxicological Research on Aug. 18-19.   The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS will

BELGRADE- Business leaders in the Bozeman area met with Senator Steve Daines on July 16, 2020, to discuss a new and booming industry making big strides across Montana.   The roundtable meeting included businesses like Ascent Vision, Wavelength Electronics, and many more who all reside here in the Bozeman area in the industry of photonics.   The optics and photonics industry uses laser research in a variety of ways including healthcare, law enforcement, transportation, and even farming purposes.   Photonics is the science and technology of generating, detecting, and controlling light.   In Montana, the industry employs almost a thousand

MISSOULA — On Friday, June 10, the ceremonial groundbreaking of the new Veterans Affairs Clinic was held on West Broadway before a COVID-19 limited crowd of politicians, VA officials, Veterans, Flathead Nation representatives, construction personnel and the family of David J. Thatcher. The World War II hero is the namesake of the David J. Thatcher Veterans Affairs Clinic. Thatcher, a U.S. Army Air Corps Veteran, volunteered to serve as a tail gunner for a high-risk mission to attack targets in Japan in April 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.   Séliš-Ql?ispéCulture Committee Director Tony Incashola in his