Blackfeet shut border with Glacier for rest of season

The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council voted Thursday to close the reservation’s western border, shared with Glacier National Park, for the remainder of the tourist season.

The border closure, which the tribe’s release said includes Two Medicine, Chief Mountain, St. Mary’s, Cut Bank Creek and many glacier roads, is in response to Thursday’s report of the highest daily number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Montana since the outbreak reached the state. This action is an amendment to the tribes COVID-19 safety ordinance for Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

The state’s number of confirmed COVID-19 cas...