Mask Mandate

An unfamiliar sight will greet teachers and students at Missoula County Public Schools on Monday; smiling faces.

MCPS Superintendent Rob Watson was on KGVO’s Talk Back show on Thursday and looked back at some of the successes achieved in the 2021 school year.

Missoula District Court Judge Jason Marks heard arguments on Wednesday morning in the case of Stand Up Montana vs. Missoula County Public Schools on the matter of mandatory masking of students as a possible violation of the parents’ Constitutional rights.

The National Park Service has issued another mask mandate.

Hopefully Montana won't have to join other places in going back to masks.

Missoula City County Health Officer Ellen Leahy made it official on Monday: The mask mandate has been lifted, and the masks that were once required and now only recommended.

Missoula County is very close to reaching the 60 percent goal of changing the mask mandate to a recommendation, according to Health Officer Ellen Leahy.

Despite the fact that Montana Governor Greg Gianforte announced that the statewide mask mandate will be allowed to expire on Friday, the mandate will remain in place in Missoula County, according to the City County Health Department.

At a bill signing ceremony in Helena on Wednesday, Governor Greg Gianforte stated that he would lift the statewide mask mandate as of Friday.

At his first press conference on Tuesday, Governor Greg Gianforte said he would be revising the state’s protocols for vaccine distribution and set new parameters for ending the state masking mandate.

At a press conference in Helena on Tuesday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced that he was tightening restrictions on mask wearing and public gatherings statewide.