Politics & Government
The Daily Inter Lake’s Politics & Government section delivers updated local and national political coverage, featuring legislative developments, elections, policy debates, and government actions shaping Montana.
Kalispell City Council to vote on federal grant for pedestrian safety upgrades
Kalispell City Council is expected to vote Monday on whether to pursue a federal grant to improve pedestrian safet…
Virus voting: France holds local elections despite fears
PARIS (AP) — French voters went to the polls Sunday to choose mayors and other local leaders but the second round of the vote was put into question amid concer…
Gov announces closure of all South Carolina public schools
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's governor on Sunday announced temporary closures for schools across the state as more cases of the new coronavirus contin…
Maryland lawmakers to end session early due to virus
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers will end the state's legislative session almost three weeks early in response to the new coronavirus and plan to recon…
As virus spreads in Georgia, a few go home from quarantine
ATLANTA (AP) — Some people exposed to the new coronavirus are going home in Georgia even as cases of COVID-19 continue to grow.
Analysis: Coronavirus may upend Louisiana lawmaking session
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers entered a three-month legislative session that seemed like it might be a pretty routine affair without the budget p…
Pope goes on Roman walkabout, prays for end to pandemic
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis left the Vatican to make a surprise visit Sunday to two churches in Rome to pray for the end of the coronavirus pandemic — a m…
Global economic coordination not happening in virus crisis
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — When the global economy melted down in 2008, world leaders swiftly created an international forum to boost economies by spending more…
Spain says deaths from the coronavirus have more than doubled in a day to 288, infections near 8,000
MADRID (AP) — Spain says deaths from the coronavirus have more than doubled in a day to 288, infections near 8,000.
States turn to cash reserves as coronavirus strains budgets
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) — States across the U.S. are allocating hundreds of millions of dollars to respond to the coronavirus, even as the U.S. government prep…
AP PHOTOS: Italians cooped up by virus cope with creativity
ROME (AP) — Italians are cooped up at home by a government decree to combat the spread of coronavirus. They are coping creatively.
Greece transferring 450 migrants to facility near Athens
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is transferring 450 migrants recently detained for trying to reach the island of Lesbos illegally to a facility near Athens, authorities said Sunday.
Election-year spread of misinformation challenges local news
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When a Republican running for Congress in the Chicago suburbs tweeted that her Democratic opponent's town hall events were invite-only,…
Amid decline, newspapers press less for records in court
Shane Fitzgerald has pushed for public records in court to help his reporters uncover details of a destructive school fire, the police shooting of an inmate an…
Georgia 2nd state to postpone pres. primaries over virus
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's March 24 presidential primaries have been postponed until May because of fears over the new coronavirus, state election officials anno…
Idaho health officials confirm three coronavirus cases
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho health officials announced the state's first confirmed coronavirus case on Friday and said it identified its second and third cases o…