Gov. Steve Bullock’s decision to finalize an eastern Montana conservation easement without the traditional approval of the Montana State Board of Land Commissioners highlighted a contentious legislative committee meeting Wednesday.
A political watchdog organization accused the dormant congressional campaign of U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Monday of skirting contribution laws when it sold a motor home to a friend of Zinke at a steep discount.
Grant Kier, the former director of a Missoula nonprofit, has joined the Democratic primary for Montana’s lone U.S. House seat, in hopes of unseating Republican Congressman Greg Gianforte next fall.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said Tuesday he is forming a federal political action committee to allow him to travel and be a larger part of the national political conversation.
Montana opened its first government-run health clinics five years ago. It was touted as a bold experiment and a possible national model in providing low-cost health care to government workers. State employees and their families have no co-pays or deductibles for checkups and routine services…
Montana's secretary of state won't release voters' birthdays or Social Security numbers to the president's commission on election integrity, the state elections director said Friday.
The state health department issued "temporary emergency rules" for the state medical marijuana program just days before an implementation deadline.
Both the state and a group representing the interests of Montana’s counties have asked the state Supreme Court to push back the implementation of Marsy’s Law, a so-called victims’ bill of rights that counties statewide have said will require massive resources to implement.
Montana's attorney general is jumping into the legal battle over Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's decision to lift the moratorium on coal-mining leases on federal land.
Montana utility regulators say NorthWestern Energy would have to pay about $20 per megawatt hour for electricity from a proposed 80-megawatt solar power project near Billings.
The White House on Thursday nominated Kurt Alme of Billings to be the new U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, following a recommendation from Sen. Steve Daines, Montana's senior Republican congressman.
The Department of Public Health and Human Services is already preparing to make cuts that would lower Medicaid provider rates and end a program meant to create 200 more openings at nursing homes.
Montana’s Republican Sen. Steve Daines said in a call with constituents Wednesday night that Medicaid expansion, which now covers about 79,000 around the state, would likely end in 2019 regardless of a U.S. Senate bill expected to terminate the program by 2026.
WHITEFISH — U.S Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, speaking on a Whitefish stage Tuesday where he once played trombone as a high school student, told the Western Governors Association that he wants to heal the broken trust between government and citizens, especially in the West.
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The Lewis and County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday warned residents of some flooding due to recent rains and urged people to be prepared.
As the spring rain trickled down outside, tears of pride and gratitude trickled down the faces of parents, grandparents, siblings and friends inside as Helena High School’s 2023 graduating class marched into the Carroll College PE Center for the school’s 144th commencement ceremony.
“A lack of high-quality childcare in Montana has prevented many parents from fully participating in the labor force, thus further exacerbating the state’s workforce shortage."
One successful veto override shows at least some degree of appetite for pushing back against a slew of such actions that took place after lawmakers adjourned last month.
DEQ was clear Thursday that it had was disregarding the carbon review Judge Moses ordered specifically because of the new law.
The lawsuit is just the latest of a half-dozen legal challenges to laws passed recently by the Montana Legislature.
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Authorities released the name of a man who was found dead after a standoff with law enforcement. A coroner confirmed the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
🎧 Reporter Karen Robinson-Jacobs discusses the racial makeup of police departments in relation to the communities they serve.
A Helena man convicted of raping, kidnapping and assaulting a woman in 2019 had the rape charge dismissed after the state Supreme Court determined the jury may have been swayed by "inadmissible statistical evidence."
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“A lack of high-quality childcare in Montana has prevented many parents from fully participating in the labor force, thus further exacerbating the state’s workforce shortage."
One successful veto override shows at least some degree of appetite for pushing back against a slew of such actions that took place after lawmakers adjourned last month.
DEQ was clear Thursday that it had was disregarding the carbon review Judge Moses ordered specifically because of the new law.
The lawsuit is just the latest of a half-dozen legal challenges to laws passed recently by the Montana Legislature.
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