Keila Szpaller

The Montana Office of Public Instruction is updating school accreditation standards, and Arntzen has proposed eliminating the minimum ratio of school counselors to students.

An interim dean will steer the University of Montana law school this fall after a recruitment failed to bring a new leader to the campus and two of three interim co-leaders plan to leave UM.

Academic testing for inmates at the Shelby prison was shut down in April and has been “suspended indefinitely” pending results of an investigation into allegations a test administrator helped inmates cheat to get their high school equivalency,

Incumbent Randy Pinocci looks like he’s headed for another term with the Montana Public Service Commission.

with just 10 days before a signature gathering deadline, the Montana Secretary of State’s Office counted just 1,739 accepted signatures for Constitutional Initiative 121 to get on the ballot.

Coming up on the primary election, Monica Tranel is touting her success raising the most money of any Democratic candidate in this period, and Cora Neumann is underscoring her “grassroots donations” and decrying attack ads.

When Matt Jette found out Ryan Zinke was running for Congress again, he decided to pack up his life in Florida and move back to Montana. Once he returned, the 49-year-old educator filed to run for Congress.

Monica Tranel is campaigning for the Democratic nomination in Montana’s new western district against health care expert Cora Neumann and former state legislator Tom Winter.

In a change of course, the Department of Public Health and Human Services announced Friday it submitted a plan to receive federal dollars for food for children for the school year, making Montana eligible for summer funding as well, the latter amount earlier estimated at $36.6 million.

The cost of childcare is substantial, an estimated one third of the income of most Montanans and roughly twice her own rent,