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Montana State News

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Updated 3 hours, 10 minutes ago

Trump administration freezes funds for wildfire mitigation projects

President Donald Trump's administration is holding up money for wildfire mitigation projects funded through legisl…

Updated 1 day, 2 hours ago
Judge clears way for Trump's plan to downsize federal workforce

A federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump 's plan to downsize the federal workforce with a deferred resignation program.

Updated 1 day, 9 hours ago
Bathroom bill clears GOP-led Legislature, poised to become law

A bill that would require public and some private facilities to enforce sex-segregated spaces for multiuser bathrooms, dormitories and locker rooms cleared its…

Updated 2 days, 3 hours ago
Man linked to Arizona teen Alicia Navarro sentenced to prison for child sexual abuse images

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who had been living with a teenager who disappeared from her home in Arizona years earlier was sentenced to decades in a p…

Updated 5 days, 18 hours ago
House Republicans in Montana pass resolution supporting the Trump administration

Republicans in the Montana House of Representatives carried a resolution supporting Donald Trump’s presidency on Feb. 5.

Updated 1 week, 1 day ago
Glacier, Yellowstone notch second-highest visitation years on record

Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park both welcomed the second highest number of visitors on record last year, according to visitation data relea…

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
Gianforte touts hefty income tax cut proposal

Appearing alongside national anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist at a Thursday press conference, Gov. Greg Gianforte touted his proposal to reduce Montana’s primary income tax bracket by a full percentage point, down…

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
North Dakota's cloud seeding program draws interest from around the world. Opponents want to end it

North Dakota's decades-long efforts to aid farmers by reshaping the weather through "cloud seeding" is facing fierce opposition in the state Capitol, where leg…

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Contractor at center of Senate ethics probe pushes back against allegations

A private contractor at the center of a Montana Senate ethics probe is pushing back against allegations of waste and abuse directed at the chamber’s former president, Republican Jason Ellsworth.

Updated 2 weeks ago
Senate confirms Doug Burgum as Interior secretary

The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as Interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republic…

Updated 2 weeks ago
Two Republican Medicaid expansion bills advance in the Montana Legislature

Medicaid expansion saves lives and saves money, proponents said — an estimated $27 million the last biennium, according to Rep. Ed Buttrey, sponsoring one bill…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
UM’s 106th Foresters’ Ball honors firefighting history

Forestry students at the University of Montana are working hard this week to set up the 106th Foresters’ Ball, a beloved campus tradition and fundraiser for st…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Montana organizations, social services reeling with uncertainty after federal funding freeze

It started with a memo from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Monday night, and by noon on Tuesday, many nonprofit agencies throughout the c…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Overhaul of troubled state psychiatric hospital leaves lawmakers in limbo

Montana lawmakers are grappling with what they can do to improve patient care and operations at the state’s psychiatric hospital since realizing that the effor…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Montana Senate Judicial committee takes up bill that criminalizes care for transgender youth

The Senate Judiciary committee on Jan. 27 heard testimony on SB 164, which would make it a felony for a parent or medical provider to procure or provide treatment to alter the appearance of a child younger than 16 …