Politics

The official poverty rate in the United States dipped slightly by half a percentage point last year to a historic low of 10.2%, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday.

State Sen. Daniel Zolnikov helped pass some of the nation’s strongest privacy laws a decade ago, and wants to bolster them next session.

The U.S. House departed Wednesday for a seven-week campaign break after spending less than two weeks in session during August and September.

In its latest effort to overhaul federal homelessness funding, the Trump administration is proposing to provide more money to localities that prioritize treatment-first policies such as sober living, more cooperation with law enforcement and more temporary and transitional housing.

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen responded to a legislative subpoena to disclose voter roll information her office provided to the federal government, but also objected to the demand and described it as “political theater.”

With less than two months to go until the midterm election, state officials warned permitting President Trump’s USPS rule to take effect would be an “unmitigated disaster.”

Conservative politicians and others skeptical of the nation’s covid response have had Vincent Munster and Rocky Mountain Labs on their radar for years.

Tabish was one of 2.7 million U.S. military personnel who served in Vietnam – a war that took 58,000 American lives, including 267 from Montana.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem.

A draft bill to protect power customers from paying for data center costs advanced Wednesday with a unanimous vote — but with criticism from NorthWestern Energy, the state’s largest public utility.