Montana State News
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Biden unveils '30 by 30' conservation plan
The Biden administration plans to broadly define conservation and encourage private landowners to adopt sustaina...
Yellowstone, Grand Teton parks to resume bus operations
BILLINGS (AP) — Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks have resumed large group tours with safety measures intended to limit the spread of COVID-19, including wearing masks and being tested with 72 hours befo...
'Piano Pat,' Montana Tiki bar entertainer for decades, dies
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Patricia Sponheim, known as "Piano Pat," who entertained crowds at a Tiki bar in downtown Great Falls, Montana, for more than 50 years, ha...
Feud breaks out among GOP lawmakers over Snake River dams
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Some Republican members of Congress from the Northwest are accusing a GOP Idaho lawmaker of conducting secret negotiations with the Dem...
Vigils, rallies mark day of awareness for Indigenous victims
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some shared agonizing stories of frustration and loss. Others prayed and performed ceremonies. All called for action.
Blackfeet gifts vaccines to neighbors across the border
BABB (AP) — On a cloudy spring day, hundreds lined up in their cars on the Canadian side of the border crossing that separates Alberta and Montana. They had ...
Plant owners say new law interferes in Colstrip contract
BILLINGS AP) — The majority owners of a coal-fired power plant in southern Montana filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday
Minority report: GOP conspired with Governor’s Office to ‘hack’ judiciary records
Misty Ann Giles, head of the Montana Department of Administration, was in “constant communication with the Governor’s Office” about a legislative subpoena before it was issued — the subpoena quickly quashed by th...
Gianforte accepting applications for judicial vacancy
HELENA (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is accepting applications and nominations for a District Court judge vacancy in Cascade County under a new law that eliminated the Judicial Nomination Commission and allo...
Pipeline program challenged by environmentalists
BILLINGS (AP) — Environmentalists have filed a new legal challenge against a U.S. government program that allows oil and gas pipelines to be built across wet...
Montana ends unemployment pay boost amid worker shortage
HELENA (AP) — Montana is ending its participation in the federal unemployment program that gives people extra weekly unemployment benefit payments as the sta...
State drought conditions worsen during dry April
April showers were few and far between in Northwest Montana, exasperating and already parched spring for the region.
Winners, losers and mixed bags of the 67th Legislature
Montana’s 67th Legislative session formally adjourned Thursday afternoon, with dueling sine die motions from the House and Senate bringing legislators’ work ...
Yellowstone bison carcass disposal breeds unique alliances
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A shared interest in bison migrating into the Gardiner Basin has created a unique partnership.
New funding to curb wildfires pushed in Congress
WASHINGTON — As wildfires across the United States grow in size, intensity and duration each summer, members of Congress from the West are pushing for massi...