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This time last month, the outlook for northcentral Montana water users and managers was pleasant, thanks to a wet start to spring.

LEWISTOWN - Administrators from 10 central Montana Class C schools are fighting to keep their doors open by looking at sharing teachers, staff and administrators and implementing four-day school weeks to make up for dwindling enrollment dollars.

With thinning budgets during tough economic times, area schools are doing one of two things on the May 5 ballot: leaning more heavily on their voters or avoiding them all together.

COCKAYNE/SCHROEDER - Daughter born Tuesday to Jessica Cockayne and Timothy Schroeder of Great Falls.

The Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown was locked down for more than three hours on Wednesday morning.

From Tribune reports Montana's unemployed workers may be eligible for a second tier of emergency unemployment compensation.

Despite a snowy December, more precipitation may be needed to fill some northcentral Montana streams, according to snowpack figures released Thursday by the Natural Resources Conservation Services in Bozeman.

BILLINGS - Booming energy development in Canada and Wyoming has led to a big increase in oversized truck traffic across Montana.