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Despite pleas from parents and teachers, Helena school board votes to close Hawthorne Elementary
Montana Department of Corrections eyeing Butte, Boulder, Hardin for new women’s prison
Attorney general spars with investment firms over coal pricing
A text poll targeting Montanans the weekend of June 7 asked recipients who was more sympathetic, Attorney General Austin Knudsen or “firms that invested in American coal companies.â€
Gianforte vetoes proposal to put marijuana tax revenue toward ‘cops and conservation’
Gov. Greg Gianforte has vetoed a bill that would divide revenues generated by adult-use marijuana sales between a variety of conservation, law enforcement, addiction treatment and homelessness support initiatives.
Daines, Sheehy wrestle with reemergence of public land sale proposal in Trump’s big budget bill
A proposal to sell 500,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management holdings in Nevada and Utah that’s generated political conversation and consternation in recent months has reemerged at the U.S. Capitol. Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, told E&E News on June 3 that he plans to add public land sales back into Trump’s…
About 50 people protest NorthWestern Energy’s rate hike as the state utility board starts 2-week hearing
Less than two years after the Montana Public Service Commission authorized a 28% electricity rate hike for NorthWestern Energy’s residential customers, commissioners are hearing expert testimony on the $874 million of investment the state’s largest utility has made in the ensuing years.
State Supreme Court strikes down 2021 abortion restrictions
A majority of Montana Supreme Court justices ruled Monday that a trio of abortion restrictions passed by Republican lawmakers in 2021 were unconstitutional, concluding a years-long legal challenge brought by health care providers and reproductive rights supporters.
Federal cuts to AmeriCorps limit Montana programs
Many Montana nonprofits that lost grant funding or AmeriCorps volunteers when the Trump administration cut funding to the service agency are concerned about how further budget reductions will impact their work in communities statewide.
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