Montana Today

Those in so-called green counties, where a majority of residents voted in favor, will be allowed to have recreational sales. Residents of red counties, where voters opted out of legal sales, will not have recreational sales but still have the ability to make the switch as long as they put it up to a vote.

In some areas, pharmacists who were let go when big chains closed are now opening new drugstores, often in the same locations. In other areas, pharmacy owners from neighboring towns are opening new branches. Without them, numerous communities would have been left with no pharmacy.

The authorized campground planned as a replacement for the illegal site under the Reserve Street bridge is expected to open next month, once the state health department signs off on the inspection.

The Montana Districting and Apportionment commission is moving forward with its plan to change how incarcerated people in the state are counted for the purposes of legislative redistricting, voting to send out a request for proposal to vendors who may be able to do the necessary analysis in a meeting earlier this month.

Montana, like other states, stands to gain billions of dollars from the recently signed federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion bill that emerged as one of the top legislative priorities of the new presidential administration.

The federal infrastructure bill passed by Congress last month has millions of dollars to help finish five big rural-water and irrigation projects in Montana — but on four of them, the actual amount is yet to be known, a Gianforte administration official said Tuesday.

You’ll need a ticket again to drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road next summer, and you’ll need one for the Polebridge entrance to the North Fork as well, Glacier National Park announced Monday.

A 48-hour lapse in federal paperwork, and private lands that have been held by Montana resident Luke Ployhar for nearly 20 years, mining at the defunct Zortman Landusky sites could resume, which tribal leaders say could once again endanger their water and land.

Montana’s richest nonprofit hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax exemptions each year to operate as charities, but some fall short of other medical facilities in what they give back to their communities to get those breaks.

Montana will direct revenue from the Volkswagen settlement to create more electric vehicle charging stations along key travel corridors, the state said this week.