Montana paid a civil liberties advocacy group more than $60,000 last year as part of a settlement after the state initially refused to release hundreds of documents related to its preparations for possible protests against the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. Montana Lee Newspaper’s Montana State Bureau reports the money covered the AC...
Montana Veterans Face Potential Legal Conflicts With Recreational Marijuana Law
Recreational marijuana sale and use became legal in Montana January 1st, but that means owning and possessing firearms and cannabis is illegal. Attorney General Austin Knudsen.
CTE Month Promoting Career Paths For High School Students
February is Career and Technical Education month in Montana to recognize its role in preparing graduates for career readiness when entering the workforce. Deputy Commissioner of Higher Education for the Montana University System Brock Tessman recently highlighted the benefits of CTE programs for both soon-to-be-high school graduates and future...
Anaconda Workers Sue Over Toxic Exposure
Eight people who worked at a U.S. Minerals slag-processing plant in Anaconda which closed last June have sued the company saying it failed to protect them from toxic dust and exposed them to high levels of arsenic. The latest lawsuit follows fines probation and other conditions imposed last year after being convicted of negligent endangerment ...
District Judge Rules In Favor Of Early-Term Abortions In Lawsuit
In 2018 ACLU Montana and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit challenging the constitutionality of a Montana law that restricted abortion providers to physicians and physician assistants. Friday, Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Mike Menahan ruled nurse practitioners and nurse midwives may perform early-term abortions in Mo...
Federal Grant Addressing Youth Homelessness Across Montana
A $3.4 million federal grant is helping Montana tackle homelessness among the state’s young people. Nichole Heyer navigates the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project for the Montana Legal Services Association says it’s unique for a legal organization to be associated with the project and important because legal service can be ba...
Ten New Candidates File With Secretary of State Office
Thirteen candidate filings had been processed by the Secretary of State’s Office for Montana’s two congressional seats as of the end of business last week. In total 214 legislative filings have been processed with 170 candidates entering the race to become a Montana representative and 44 vying to become a senator. 30 legislative races ar...
PowerXchange Host Kate Tillotson Offers Some Great Tips!
If you are one of the thousands of Rural Electric members heading for Nashville for the 2022 PowerXchange March 6-9, you can look forward to Kate Tillotson serving as your Host and Emcee. Some Montanans might recognize Tillotson, because she began her early career as a reporter in Kalispell, before eventually broadcasting for 12 years at WW...
Montana Ag Teachers Oppose CTE Framework Changes
During Career Technical Education Month in Montana the national organization “Advance CTE” is looking to update the National Career Clusters Framework used to describe CTE. One of the proposed changes is the agriculture cluster to the food living systems and natural resources cluster. Missoula ag educator Kristi Rothe.
Secretary Of State Jacobsen Submits PSC Map Per Court Order
Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen submitted the state’s proposed five new Public Service Commission districts this week in response to a lawsuit claiming the current ones are unconstitutional but said it shouldn’t be adopted. MTN News Mike Dennison reports she said the lawsuit should be dismissed and the Legislature should draw the bo...