HELENA — Montana’s economy presents a puzzling contradiction: the state has achieved record employment levels with over 560,000 people working, yet businesses face severe worker shortages with nearly ...

Montana’s elected lawmakers passed a bill to protect women. The governor signed it. And one gay judge in Missoula struck it down—declaring, in effect, that safeguarding women’s privacy is ...

KALISPELL — A Mexican national who crashed into a vehicle carrying four people during an 80 mph chase through a Kalispell residential neighborhood pleaded guilty to illegal reentry charges, marking ...

MISSOULA — A pedestrian bridge to West Broadway Island that cost $800,000 to build less than a decade ago is now slated for removal at an estimated cost of $800,000, according to citizen journalist ...

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Seventeen illegal aliens were arrested at a construction site in Bigfork earlier this month. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported on X they were “found to be inadmissible to the United ...

Missoula Police Department (MPD) and Missoula County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) were active in the early hours, responding to various incidents. Notably, MPD attended a burglary in Captain John Mullan, ...

HELENA, MT — The Montana Family Foundation filed a legal challenge last week seeking to prevent Constitutional Initiative 128, the so-called “abortion rights” amendment that Montana voters approved in ...

Missoula Police Department and Missoula County Sheriff’s Office responded to a series of incidents in the early hours of the morning across various neighborhoods. Events included a disturbance in ...

HELENA, Mont. – Ten rural Montana counties and tribes will receive up to $250,000 each over the next two years to design and implement their own behavioral health solutions, part of a $2.5 million ...

Missoula, MT – The City of Missoula has announced the permanent closure of the Johnson Street Emergency Shelter, initially established as a temporary pandemic response measure. Mayor Andrea Davis made ...

HELENA — The Montana Department of Livestock issued an emergency order Thursday restricting horse imports into the state as a rapidly developing multi-state outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus continues ...