DUI court funded for another year

A local treatment court that just graduated its first participants has received funding for another year, allowing continued work in treating alcohol addiction and to add a new course in the program.

Montana Department of Transportation announced it awarded the Hill County DUI Court $70,141 in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funding for the next federal fiscal year, Oct. 1, 2014, through Sept. 30, 2015.

Hill County Justice of the Peace Audrey Barger, who presides over the Hill County treatment courts, said the MDT grant also will allow a new service with the increasing numb...