Daily Montanan

Montana officials cheered a move by the Trump administration to roll back greenhouse gas emissions requirements for U.S. power plants, while environmental groups decried the change, which has already drawn one legal challenge.

Lee Enterprises, which owns five of Montana’s largest circulation newspapers, is acquiring one more daily paper, the Great Falls Tribune, the company announced on Monday.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens captured and euthanized 14 black bears near Bozeman after investigators found animals that were “extremely food conditioned."

The Montana Supreme Court on Thursday vacated an earlier ruling that the Butte-Silver Bow elections office print a citizen’s initiative question on the ballots after learning the department had already mailed ballots to voters.

The building has been a topic of legislative and state discussion for years, as the residence, built in 1959, was in disrepair.

Ballot measure seeking local voter approval of data center construction will appear on November ballot; similar measure stalled in Yellowstone County.

For the third time this year, a Montana agency director is leaving Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration for the private sector.

A federal judge ordered immigration officials to release 24 individuals being unlawfully held in Cascade County, some for more than six weeks, Upper Seven Law announced in a news release.

Planned Parenthood’s political arm has endorsed the independent candidate in Montana’s U.S. Senate race, a rare departure by the organization that almost exclusively backs Democratic candidates.

A fraudulent enrollment scheme drained $673,745 in federal money from the University of Montana’s Missoula College in 2025, according to a new report from the Legislative Audit Division.