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Montana State News

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Updated 1 day, 16 hours ago

Montana State student volunteers help Alaskan Native communities with tax returns

BOZEMAN – For Montana State University students, Alaskan dogsledding and pro bono accounting are all in a day’s wo…

Updated 1 day, 16 hours ago
Glacier High School students question Zinke on upheaval in Washington, education funding

Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke defended efforts by the Trump administration to downsize and remake the federal government while taking questions from Glacie…

Updated 2 days, 2 hours ago
Probationary federal employees in Montana given temporary reprieve, Zinke says

Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke said Friday that Forest Service and National Park Service probationary workers fired earlier this year by the Trump administr…

Updated 2 days, 10 hours ago
Glacier Park superintendent to oversee Grant-Kohrs Ranch

The superintendent of Glacier National Park is adding another National Park Service site to his portfolio.

Updated 3 days, 16 hours ago
Poll: 3 in 4 Montanans concerned about being able to afford housing in near future

Almost 3 in 4 Montanans were concerned about being able to afford housing in the state over the next five years, according to a Montana Free Press-Eagleton Pol…

Updated 4 days ago
Sheehy proposes new wildland fire response time

A bipartisan U.S. Senate bill seeking to centralize wildland firefighting operations and set a national wildfire standard response time has been introduced to …

Updated 4 days, 4 hours ago
Man dies from injuries after falling from chairlift at Montana ski resort

A 37-year-old man died after falling from a chairlift that was having a mechanical problem at a Montana ski area, according to the local sheriff and a spokespe…

Updated 4 days, 16 hours ago
Trump administration seeks to dismantle National Environmental Policy Act

Despite being one of the shorter laws on the federal books, the National Environmental Policy Act imposes tall workloads on federal decision-making.

Updated 5 days, 16 hours ago
Sen. Regier calls ethics allegations a 'witch hunt'

On the last day before the 69th Montana Legislature adjourned for transmittal break and after the Senate held a marathon floor session to debate and vote on 99…

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
Labor board temporarily reinstates laid-off Forest Service workers’ employment

The approximately 360 Montana-based federal Forest Service workers laid off in a blanket federal workforce reduction initiative may soon return to their positi…

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an "aggressive" reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health …

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
House and Senate make opposite decisions on partisan judiciary bills

Leaders in Montana’s Republican Party have made it clear that when the Legislature disbands at the end of the 69th session, the plan is to assign the judicial …

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Court upholds pro-construction housing laws; nixes NIMBY-focused public comment limits

A district court judge in Bozeman ruled Monday against most of the claims made by a homeowners group that sued to challenge four pro-construction housing laws …

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Montana Department of Labor and Industry mobilizes ‘rapid response event’ to address federal layoffs

The Montana Department of Labor and Industry has set up a “Rapid Response Event” to help the hundreds of Montanans who were recently fired in a mass federal workforce reduction find new jobs.

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Montana abortion ‘trafficking’ bill gets voted down in Republican-dominated committee

A majority of Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee joined Democrats on Thursday in deciding to table a bill to make abortion “trafficking” inside or outside of Montana’s borders a felony for pregna…