Hospital receives $400,000 grant for diagnostic tool

Across from the front door lobby at Mineral Community Hospital, there’s a room with an ominous yellow warning sign with red letters which reads, “Caution: Do Not Open, Radiation Area”. What’s behind that closed door is a large donut shaped machine with a gurney-style bed called a “scanning couch”.

New programs to assist area veterans unveiled

Theatrical couple open Montana tour in Superior

Over 50 attendees enjoyed dinner and dancing from Nic & Desi on Thursday evening in the multipurpose room of Superior High School.

St. Regis man to pay drug fine

Forty-nine year-old Donald Dean Glade, of St. Regis, was sentenced for two charges in district court on Monday, Nov. 8. Glade faced charges of resisting arrest and criminal production of dangerous drugs. In a plea agreement, Glade pled guilty to both counts back on Aug. 25. Glade initially pled not guilty at his initial appearance on Aug. 11 to both counts.

CPR taught for free in court house

THOMPSON FALLS - Last Wednesday, the Sanders County community was treated to a free life saving class in the Justice Court Room in the Court House.

Standing up for principles

The Politics of Personal Destruction

Lady Hawks split games

After a hot start, the Thompson Falls girls basketball team has cooled, albeit slightly, as the 2021-22 Montana high school girls regular season nears its final two weekends.

Superior Bobcats throttle Troy Trojans, 62-6

The Bobcats got outstanding production from their dynamic passing/receiving duo of junior quarterback Orion Plakke and speedy senior receiver Decker Milender.

Senator's representative visits Mineral County

SUPERIOR – A representative from Montana State Senator Jon Tester’s office was in Mineral County last week at the weekly commissioners meeting to listen to their concerns regarding a variety of issues.

Montana adds protections for kids in private residential treatment programs

As a teenager attending Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, a private, alternative therapeutic program in Eureka, Montana, from 2001 to 2004, Meg Appelgate was subjected to emotional abuse and not given medical care for injuries from physical labor such as baling hay, chopping wood, and moving rocks, she said.

Williams leads Noxon at state meet

Sometimes the phrase or thought of someone being “the whole team” can be a negative term.

Paradise sewer board discusses $53k bill

They’ve already dealt with a revolving door when it comes to membership on the board.

Legals for January, 15 2025

Mineral Regional Health Center to host veteran's roundtable

Mineral Regional Health Center, a federally qualified health center located in Superior, Mont., and its Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership are sponsoring a roundtable discussion related to the healthcare needs of veterans in the region. The roundtable will be held Saturday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Community Center in St. Regis, Mont.

Roundtable discussion on veteran's health to be held Saturday

Mineral Regional Health Center, a federally qualified health center located in Superior, Mont., and its Frontier Medicine Better Health Partnership are sponsoring a roundtable discussion related to the healthcare needs of veterans in the region. The roundtable will be held Saturday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Community Center in St. Regis, Mont.

COVID has challenged Sanders Co. nonprofits

With the cancellation of the Sanders County Fair local non-profit service clubs which relied on it for their main source of revenue for programs they provide during the entire year has required them to try something different to raise funds that go to

COLUMN: Sports and politics

It is happening, already in a major way in some cases.

National Bison Range offers free day

SANDERS COUNTY - Need an excuse getting outside and enjoying the fall weather? Want to hear elk bugling and see geese migrating? Your chance is coming up on Saturday, September 28 as the National Bison Range in Sanders County celebrates National Public Lands Day. Many federal lands throughout the nation will be waiving fees for the day, as will the Bison Range. So come visit us for free on September 28.

Master Gardener classes to start

Master Gardener courses have been rotated annually since 1996 between Noxon, Thompson Falls, Plains and last year in Hot Springs. During that period, over 250 people have attended all or part of the program.  In 2009, MSU State Horticulturist, Toby Day reorganized the Montana Master Gardener program into three levels with level 1 similar to the curriculum taught for many years in counties across the state. Level 2 is more in-depth and level 3, an on-campus intensive 3 day short course offered in Bozeman this coming summer (2011).

Paradise Water District pushes for reimbursement

The Paradise Water District is in the process of seeking legal counsel as it seeks to collect what it says are funds that were wrongly and perhaps illegally paid from their budget to help fund the then newly created Paradise Sewer Board.