Bipartisan approach comes as Missoula residents worry about the sale of their park to an out-of-state investment firm.

Montana Republicans, who hold a majority in the Legislature, are set to debate nearly 30 bills aimed at reforming the ...

Montana lawmakers will debate bills to increase teacher pay and school funding, as well as improve early childhood numeracy ...

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In addition to heightened funding for teacher pay, Gianforte announced his intention to increase state support for STEM and ...

In the same election Montana voters enshrined abortion rights, they also elected a conservative new chief justice of the ...

Spring Creek is the largest coal mine in Montana and one of the largest in the country. In 2023, it produced more than 12 ...

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The 69th Montana Legislature is officially underway. This week, host Shaylee Ragar and reporters Tom Lutey and Mara Silvers ...

Tens of thousands of tons of contaminated soil at a shuttered aluminum plant just north of Columbia Falls will be ...

The Montana Senate prepared for a Monday reboot while House lawmakers took their first bites at meaty social issues.

Policy proposals so far focus on state-funded financial subsidies to address high costs and low wages for child care workers.