Karyn Moltzen never intended to become a modern-day Noah. Initially, her only goal was to feed neglected and abandoned pets that were going hungry. But the more cats and dogs Karyn fed, the more she grasped the magnitude of the problem and broadened her focus to include sheltering animals that otherwise would have perished.

Montana hunters have a new, earlier deadline in 2012 to apply for bull elk and buck mule deer permits in some hunting districts. In districts where a special permit is required to harvest a bull elk or buck deer, the new application deadline is March 15. Drawing results will be announced by the end of April.

Playing off the wildly successful children’s programming available at Helena’s science center, ExWorks now offers three different series of events and classes specifically designed for adult audiences.

The Lewistown Art Center’s mission is to promote art, art education and art appreciation through exhibits, outreach and cultural events for the enrichment and enjoyment of citizens in Central Montana.

Today, AARP Montana announced the launch of its annual Tax-Aide program – a volunteer-run AARP Foundation program that assists low- and moderate-income taxpayers in preparing and filing their tax return free of charge, with a special emphasis on assisting individuals 60 years of age and older.

Thomas Hogan, a homesteader from Minnesota came west in the late 1800s and chose a plot of ground in Carbon County, Montana to claim, farm, and settle with his family. A man of some means, Hogan set about ensuring that his three children would not live an uneducated life. Around 1887, he built a small log building and brought a teacher, Margaret Gardiner, from back east so his children could start school. This school became known as the Hogan School, the first school in Carbon County

Barbara McFarlane of Great Falls is on the prowl for graniteware kitchen items wherever she goes - and not just any graniteware. She will ignore the blue, white-speckled plates in your camping set because they are still making those today. Instead, McFarlane pursues graniteware made between 1870 and the 1950s.

in 1940, when Al Chandler Good Strike was growing up on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation he watched an old man make a hand drum for his grandfather in the same way Indian people made drums centuries ago.

Students learn all aspects of theater.

While it may be true that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear, you could make an adorable teddy bear from an old flannel shirt. Well, you could if you were Sherry Attard.

Some people dream about vacations where they can sip margaritas from a cruise liner’s deck chair or bask in St. Tropez sunshine. But not Missoula’s Steve Sheriff and Christine Brick.