The House Fish Wildlife and Parks Committee recently advanced two bills aimed at reducing Montana’s wolf population. House Bill 222 initially proposed an open season for wolf hunting until numbers reached 600 but this was later amended. Another proposal House Bill 176 seeks to eliminate bag limits until population numbers drop by half. The sta...
A new study has ranked Montana as the twenty-sixth best state for entrepreneurs in 2025. Simplify LLC released its annual study on the Best and Worst States for Entrepreneurs determined by analyzing six key categories in all 50 states and the District of Columbia corporate tax rates inflation consumer spending growth job creation rates and net...
President Donald Trump’s promise to keep TikTok functioning is at odds with a 2023 law that banned the app in Montana. A federal judge later blocked the state’s ban after TikTok and several Montana users filed lawsuits which the state appealed. The lawsuit went on hold in 2024 when a ruling on a federal ban seemed imminent. As of Thursday Mont...
The annual Point in Time Count will take place in Montana next Thursday as part of a national effort to track the number of people experiencing homelessness. The count is crucial for determining federal funding for homelessness assistance in communities. In 2023 it reported 2,178 individuals experiencing homelessness in Montana a 37% increase ...
Yellowstone Glacier and Grand Teton national parks had their second-busiest years on record in 2024. Yellowstone finished the year with more than 4.74 million visitors. Grand Teton had 3.62 million visitors. Glacier’s totals have not yet been updated with December figures but tourism had already pushed visitation to 3.18 million by the end of ...
Montana’s federal congressional delegation was joined by Governor Greg Gianforte Monday in Washington D.C. to celebrate the inauguration of President Donald Trump to his second term. The outdoor ceremony was scrapped because of cold weather and held in the Capitol Rotunda as was Ronald Reagan’s in 1985 also because of very cold weather. At the...
For the first three-quarters of 2024 over 250,000 drug dosage units were seized in the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in Montana down from the same period in 2023. The Montana Division of Criminal Investigations says the top threats are methamphetamine and fentanyl and now a rise in cocaine is being seen. Virtually 100% of...
The Bureau of Reclamation is investing $54.5 million in two Montana Rural Water Projects to ensure more residents have access to clean safe drinking water. The Rocky Boys North Central Montana Rural Water System will get $47.5 million to plan and design upcoming on-reservation water delivery pipelines. $7 million is for the Musselshell-Judith ...
About 150 people gathered outside the Montana State Capitol in Helena Wednesday for a rally to push lawmakers toward supporting the reauthorization of Medicaid expansion which provides health care coverage to roughly 80,000 adults statewide. The expansion of the joint federal-state health insurance program will end in June unless the Legislatu...
Montana’s winter snowpack is growing after running about half of what is normal for early December. High-elevation snowpack across most of western Montana has nearly doubled since last month. Despite the recent improvements though snowpack remains slightly below normal across most of Montana. Montana’s mountain snowpack generally peaks in Apri...
