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While the department's new requests add up to around $1.59 million, they don't yet include probable requests around homelessness and shelter. Those requests will be presented in the coming weeks.

One freshman member of the Missoula City Council voted against paying the city's bills this week while criticizing what he believes is a lack of transparency in the budgeting process.

While urban camping and the issues it brings has become a heated debate this summer, the city's housing program and its non-profit partners are exploring short-term solutions to address the problem while also working toward long-term plans to provide more shelter and housing options in Missoula.

Call volumes have nearly doubled over the last 15 years for the Missoula Fire Department, but its staffing levels haven't increased. And despite persistent requests to buy land for a new station in the booming Mullan area – and to fix a broken elevator at another station – the requests remain unfunded.

A $310.8 billion budget deal inched closer to becoming law in California on Wednesday, which lawmakers hope will tackle California’s nearly $32 billion revenue shortfall.

In his first budget presentation as mayor, Hess maintained his criticism of the state's tax system and continued his call for reforms, saying municipal governments are finding it more and more difficult to fund vital programs.

With the budgeting season set to kick off, members of the Missoula City Council this week set the rules that will guide the process and time it with the state's release of its latest tax valuations.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed several pieces of legislation Wednesday that lawmakers from both parties have been waiting on for more than a month.

Montana’s Democratic legislative leadership sent a letter Friday to Senate President Jason Ellsworth calling on him to sign several bills that have been awaiting his signature for weeks so they can be sent to the governor.

April Corbin Girnus (Nevada Current) Politicians in Carson City have another $250 million to argue over. The Economic Forum on Monday adjusted its general fund revenue projections for the upcoming biennium to $11.6 billion — up from a $11.4 billion ...