Biden announces 2024 reelection bid: 'Let's finish this job'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to "finish this job" and extend the run of America's oldest president for another four years.

Attempt to revive controversial top-two primary proposal stalls

Renewed efforts to restrict the ability of third-party and independent candidates to make the ballot ahead of Montana’s 2024 U.S. Senate race stalled just as they began Monday with little explanation.

GOP plan addresses the looming debt crisis

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Legislature must address pension debt

You may believe that Montana is debt free following actions by the legislature earlier this year to pay off state debt.

Legals for April, 25 2023

Struggling Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy protection

NEW YORK (AP) — Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — filed for bankruptcy protection, following years of dismal sales and losses and numerous failed turnaround plans.

Funding to send Montana prisoners to Arizona private prison reinstated by Senate committee

The Senate Finance and Claims Committee voted Friday to put the $3.9 million annually that would go toward funding 120 beds for Montana prisoners at a CoreCivic private prison in Arizona into a separate bill after nixing the funding several other times this session.

Cities reviving downtowns by converting offices to housing

A growing number of developers are considering converting empty office towers into housing as part of an effort to revive struggling downtown business districts that emptied out during the pandemic.

Stocks drift ahead of week's deluge of profit, economic data

Stocks are drifting as Wall Street remains hesitant to make big moves amid questions about where the economy, interest rates and corporate profits are heading.

Coke's strong quarter fueled by higher prices, China rebound

Coca-Cola Co. reported higher-than-expected sales in the first quarter as it continued to hike prices and its business in China improved.

Legals for April, 24 2023

FVCC taps into role-playing game’s popularity with continuing education class

A cooperative storytelling game, Dungeons & Dragons lets a group of players act as their characters as they complete quests, slay monsters, solve puzzles and, occasionally, save a fictional world.

Ellen Imogene Gravning, 96

Ellen Imogene Gravning, 96

Patricia Miles, 80

Patricia Miles, 80

As Montana looks to ban TikTok, questions linger

Less than a month after Congress battered TikTok’s CEO about Chinese influence over the social media platform and the threat it poses to national security, Montana lawmakers are trying to pass their own statewide ban of the popular app.

Critical choices on school election ballots

School election ballots hit area mailboxes earlier this week, and there are no shortage of trustee candidates for voters to consider.

Legals for April, 23 2023

Hurdler Schrader leads C-Falls boys to Iceberg win

The Columbia Falls Wildcats capped a busy week with the boys team title in their own Iceberg Invitational track and field meet Saturday.

Board selects Dziowgo as new Columbia Falls Public Schools superintendent

The Columbia Falls Public Schools Board of Trustees on April 12 selected Cory Dziowgo as its next superintendent.

Trans lawmaker silenced for 2nd day by Montana House speaker

A transgender Montana lawmaker was silenced for a second day Friday as her Republican colleagues have refused to let her speak on the chamber's floor this session until she apologizes for saying lawmakers would have "blood on their hands" if they banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.