HELENA, Montana, March 25 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * - Montana public schools, dine-in food service and alcoholic beverage businesses to remain closed * * * Governor Steve Bullock issued a directive to extend closures of public schools and dine-in food service and alcoholic beverage businesses through April 10 and mandate social distancing measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Montana. "Montanans have an obligation to slow the spread of t more PR

HELENA, Montana, March 25 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release on March 23: Governor Steve Bullock announced measures to ensure the state can swiftly acquire the hospital space and medical supplies needed to rapidly respond to a potential surge in COVID-19 cases. "While it's paramount that Montanans stay vigilant with social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 and avoid burdening our health care system, we must also prepare for a potential surge in critical more PR

HELENA, Montana, March 25 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release on March 24: Governor Steve Bullock announced measures to give local governments the flexibility they need to adhere to social distancing guidelines and do their part in preventing COVID-19. "I'm pleased that local governments know they can play a key role in slowing the virus and are taking social distancing measures seriously," Governor Bullock said. "Today's action will keep the public and local go more PR

HELENA, Montana, March 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release on March 26: * * * - Directive asks Montanans to stay home to maximum extent possible except for essential activities, temporarily restricts all nonessential businesses and operations * * * Governor Steve Bullock issued a Directive requiring Montanans to stay home and temporarily closes all nonessential businesses and operations to curtail the spread of COVID-19. The order, which goes into effect at more PR

HELENA, Montana, March 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * - Waiver will streamline processes for health care providers responding to COVID-19 * * * Governor Steve Bullock requested a waiver from the federal government to streamline frontline health care providers' ability to access much-needed health services available through Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP to respond to COVID-19. The waiver will give Montana the regulatory flexibility to implement c more PR

HELENA, Montana, March 27 -- Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Montana, issued the following news release: * * * - All counties required to implement measures to ensure social distancing during voter registration and voting * * * Governor Steve Bullock issued a Directive to ensure all eligible Montanans can safely vote in the 2020 June primary by allowing counties to expand voting by mail and early voting. All counties will be required to implement social distancing measures for election procedures. "T more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, March 25 -- Montana State University issued the following news: Sara Branco thinks fungi are more resilient than we give them credit for. They survive in environments that many organisms couldn't, adapting to withstand stresses like extreme temperatures and exposure to heavy metals. Branco, an assistant professor in Montana State University's Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Agriculture, wants to figure out just how they do it. Her research is part  more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, March 24 -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: An international team of researchers, including two from the University of Montana, are working to help identify priority forest areas for protection on Borneo. The government of the state of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo has set an ambitious target of securing 30% of Sabah's land area under protection by 2025. The study identified important forest areas across the state that are critical for protection. Th more PR

KENT, Ohio, March 24 -- Wright State University issued the following news: * * * - Wright State grad student David Peterman has discovered fossils from California to the Carolinas * * * David Peterman, who is pursuing his Ph.D. in paleobiology at Wright State, has discovered fossils from California to the Carolinas. It was in middle-of-nowhere Montana in the summer of 2018. David Peterman had gotten there in a vehicle that bounced along dirt roads and even ran over a buried barbed-wire fenc more PR