Daily Montanan

Two Montana abortion clinics are asking a state district court to block new licensing requirements for clinics issued by the Department of Public Health and Human Services last month.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s hearing before a Commission on Practice adjudication panel regarding the 41 counts of professional misconduct he faces will proceed as scheduled.

Montanans want legislators to make sure the Montana Consumer Counsel looks out for families and small business customers of NorthWestern Energy as the utility asks for yet another rate increase.

A 2024 report on labor in Montana said the economy is continuing to expand, unemployment remains low, and wage growth is increasing and has outpaced inflation.

Former Montana Highway Patrol Col. Steve Lavin filed a lawsuit Friday alleging Attorney General Austin Knudsen unlawfully forced him to resign and misrepresented the terms of his employment.

The Vaughn man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to violating the Lacey Act by cloning and trafficking a large species of an Asian sheep and selling hybrid offspring DNA was sentenced Monday to six months in prison.

In a recent study of properties at risk for wildfire, Montana has the second highest percentage of at-risk properties with more than half of the structures in the state possibly vulnerable to wildfire.

Internal polling done through the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee shows Tranel and Zinke neck-and-neck.

The Daily Montanan put Sheehy’s book through commercially available software that scans texts against a massive store of other published and online sources to compare passages.

Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen’s office issued a news release Monday morning that started with the assertion: “No, Montana did not leave a candidate off the 2024 General Election ballot.”