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Republican senators demand revote for party leadership
NorthWestern Energy, Montana utility board dial back electricity rate hike
Montana changes course, opts in to NCAA’s House settlement for this year
Trump administration weighs new coal sales from public lands in Montana and Wyoming
The Interior Department proposal comes after the Biden administration, citing climate change, tried to end sales of the fuel from the nation’s most productive coal fields 鈥 the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.
The 鈥榤istake鈥 behind a Helena immigration arrest
Christopher Martinez Marvan was on his way home during his lunch break. Officers from the Helena Police Department and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations were trying to arrest a different man. When they saw Martinez Marvan driving in the area they were targeting, HPD stopped him for an expired vehicle registration. Then ICE鈥
The silent mental health crisis on the frontlines of fire
As wildfires worsen across the U.S., job uncertainty is combining with a growing mental health crisis and threatening the lives of wildland firefighters.
Flathead Lake balancing act continues as drought persists
For the second time in three years, drought conditions are significantly affecting the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. Perhaps no one understands the impacts better than Brian Lipscomb, CEO of Energy Keepers, the tribal-owned company that operates the S茅li拧 Ksanka Q脥isp茅 Dam near Polson, who is caught in a tug of鈥
Zinke, Downing, among Republican majority giving final approval to Trump’s big tax bill
U.S. House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump鈥檚 big trillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage in Congress, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve Trump鈥檚 signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline. Montana Reps. Ryan Zinke and Troy Downing laud fulfillment of Republican 鈥渕andate.鈥
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Montana鈥檚 bid to revive parental consent law for minors’ abortions
The U.S. Supreme Court decided it will not hear a case involving a push to revive a state law that minors must have their parents鈥 permission for an abortion in Montana, where voters have enshrined the right to abortion in the state’s Constitution. The justices rebuffed an appeal from the state seeking to overturn a鈥
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