Kate Jerman News Today

This week marked International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31.

For students who attend college in Vermont but hail from states where such procedures are severely restricted or outlawed, they are able to legally access certain reproductive health care while at school, but their rights differ once they head home for the summer.

Fires continue to burn as hot and dry weather persists into early September.

Vermont has the seventh-highest rate of LGBTQ people in the nation, according to a survey analysis from the Williams Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. It also has the highest rate of same-sex couples in the nation.The data comes...

"Students are speaking up and saying we need help and this is a district that is saying okay."

Lolo Creek Fire now part of the Granite Pass Fire Complex Firefighting officials have combined three smaller fires that are actually burning towards each other into one new complex, according to Fire Information Officer Kate Jerman. “Theres the Shotgun Fire, which is located approximately seven miles north of Powell Junction,” said Jerman. “Its burning on the Powell Ranger District over in Idaho. Then, theres the BM Hill Fire which originated on the Powell Ranger District as well. But sin...

The Lolo Creek Fire that was reported late Saturday afternoon has resulted in an Evacuation Warning from Lolo Hot Springs to the Idaho Border along Highway 12. Fire Information Officer Kate Jerman provided details to KGVO on Sunday afternoon messaging the residents in the area. “Were asking them to remain vigilant and prepared,” said Jerman. The Missoula County Sheriffs Office did issue an evacuation warning, so were asking them to tune in to the Missoula County Sheriffs Office Facebook pag...

Wildfire in Lolo Pass area continues to burn, within two miles of other fire in Idaho MTN and last updated 2021-07-11 16:02:02-04 A wildfire in the Lolo Pass area that led to an evacuation warning on Saturday night has grown to 12 acres, according to a U.S. Forest Service news release, and is in close proximity to another wildfire burning in Idaho. The release said the Lolo Creek Fire was reported at 5:23 p.m. on Saturday. The fire is burning approximately 1.5 miles northwest of the Lolo Pass V...

800 Lightning Strikes Spark 30 New Fires in Lolo National Forest Public Information Officer Kate Jerman provided details to KGVO News on Thursday morning. “We had a large thunderstorm track west to east across the majority of the Lolo National Forest and that started early Wednesday morning and we received an estimated 800 lightning strikes across the forest,” said Jerman. “Primarily the concentration of those lightning strikes occurred on the western part of the Lolo National Forest, whi...

800 Lightning Strikes Spark 30 New Fires in Lolo National Forest Public Information Officer Kate Jerman provided details to KGVO News on Thursday morning. “We had a large thunderstorm track west to east across the majority of the Lolo National Forest and that started early Wednesday morning and we received an estimated 800 lightning strikes across the forest,” said Jerman. “Primarily the concentration of those lightning strikes occurred on the western part of the Lolo National Forest, whi...