Video – Montana teen shoots charging grizzly bear in his backyard near Missoula – A GoFundMe campaign for hiker attacked in Glacier

Montana Business

• Missoula’s David Optiz Launches Opitara – allows users with no coding expertise to produce state-of-the-art prediction models – Multiple Career Opportunities

  If interested in joining our team, visit http://www.opitara.ai to apply.

• ICE arrest in a rural Montana town prompts a conservative community to take action

  In a northeastern corner of Montana sits the small town of Froid. Rural and deeply conservative, it backed President Trump during every one of his White House runs. But earlier this year, when federal immigration agents detained one of the town’s longtime residents, this tight knit community pushed back. Montana PBS’s Matt Standal reports.

• Montana one of the most impacted states by cuts in Social Security benefits.

  A report warns the Social Security trust fund may become insolvent in seven years. Montana retirees could face significant financial strain amid these national challenges.

Montana Housing

• Valley 5 Real Estate – We help our clients keep more of their hard-earned equity.

  Why Valley 5 Can Do This . . . Because we are independent — not a franchise — we eliminate corporate overhead and pass that value directly to our clients.

Visit Montana

• Photo Essay – Glacier National Park’s Awe-Inspiring Landscapes

  The stories behind some of our favorite images of the park

• Video – Montana teen shoots charging grizzly bear in his backyard near Missoula – A GoFundMe campaign for hiker attacked in Glacier

  Montana teen kills charging grizzly bear in his backyard with 1 shot from his .270.   Lucky kid.

Montana Energy and Transportation

• Bozeman, Montana Hires AI Software Company To Study Data Related To Car Crashes

  “We don’t shoot before we aim, or cut before we measure, and engineering safer streets is much the same way. So, what this platform will do for us is take a lot of safety crash data that we have,” Ross said. “And aggregate that all into a safety analytics platform that will make it much easier for us to identify where the worst problem areas are, and especially what the causes of those crashes have been”.

Montana’s 21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

• University Of Wyoming Partners With Buffalo Bills Again As UW Builds ‘Student Pipeline’

  The University of Wyoming has announced a partnership with the Buffalo Bills again. The goal is to build a “student pipeline” as support is building in western New York. In fact, there are more incoming students from New York in 2026 than Utah or Idaho.

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