The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a district court’s ruling that the state Commissioner of Political Practices does not have the power to subpoena for records in its investigatory work. The order stems from July 2018 when the Montana Democratic Party filed a complaint with the commissioner claiming the Montana Republican Party failed ...
WY Wildlife magazine calling for your Best Wildlife Photos
Wyoming Wildlife magazine is calling for your best wildlife photographs from the Cowboy State. The publication has opened entries for the second annual Wyoming Wildlife calendar photo contest. Entries will be accepted until June 30. Photographers of all skill levels have a chance for their images to be featured in the magazine’s 2022 calendar...
How’s Your Best Photography from the Cowboy State!
Wyoming Wildlife magazine is calling for your best wildlife photographs from the Cowboy State. The publication has opened entries for the second annual Wyoming Wildlife calendar photo contest. Entries will be accepted until June 30. Photographers of all skill levels have a chance for their images to be featured in the magazine’s 2022 calendar,...
Vaccine Bill Clears Legislature
With Mother’s Day around the corner and mothers regaining jobs lost due to COVID-19 at a faster rate than fathers, the personal finance website Wallet Hub today released its report on 2021’s best states for working moms. Montana ranks 23rd based on 17 key metrics. The data set ranges from the median women’s salary to the female unemployment ra...
Governor Gianforte Details Planned Use For ARPA Funds
According to state health officials about 96% of Montanans who have received their first COVID-19 vaccine have been returning to get their second dose but about 14,600 are at least two weeks overdue for their second shot. Over 332,000 Montanans are now fully immunized or nearly 39% of the 865,000 people who are eligible. The state health depar...
BNSF Railway Suing Center for Asbestos Related Disease
According to Libby clinic Center for Asbestos Related Disease, at least 400 people exposed to Libby asbestos have died of asbestosis mesothelioma or other lung disease from the W.R. Grace Vermiculite mine. The Montana Supreme Court has held Grace liable and BNSF Railway liable for spreading asbestos amid the dust that blew of its cars while tr...
Weekend Helena Burn Postponed
Thursday, Gallatin County Sheriff’s evacuated residents of a mobile home park, where law enforcement negotiated with a man armed with a pistol and taser, who had taken a woman hostage. Gallatin County said on Twitter shortly before 3 p.m. the hostage had been released. Sheriff Dan Springer stated in a press conference, the situation began abou...
Senator Daines Responds To Biden Address
A Hamilton woman who shot and killed her husband following an alleged abusive relationship was sentenced to a suspended 20-year commitment to the Montana Department of Corrections. Joanne Evelyn Campbell, 61, wiped away tears as she appeared via video link during her sentencing hearing Thursday before Ravalli County District Court. Campbell wa...
U.S. Fish Wildlife And Parks To Look Into Gianforte’s Bison Proposal
U.S. officials said they will consider whether to reintroduce wild bison to a million-acre (400,000-hectare) federal wildlife refuge in central Montana. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans in July, “to engage Tribes and stakeholders on the topics of bison and bighorn sheep reintroductions” on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refug...
Paddlefish Opens May 1st. on Upper Missouri
This year’s Montana paddlefish seasons kicks off on May 1 with the opening of the Upper Missouri River section from Fort Benton downstream to Fort Peck Dam. Paddlefish anglers must have a white harvest tag, which is issued through a lottery system, to participate in catching and keeping a paddlefish from this section of the river. FWP mails th...