Montana Today

Jim Elliott writes, "The purpose of political parties is to gain power, but they seem to see that power as an end in itself."

President Donald Trump said Friday morning he would not sign federal legislation aimed at lowering the cost of housing, but the bipartisan package became law at 12:01 a.m. Saturday anyway.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham died on Saturday night of a “brief and sudden illness,” the South Carolina Republican’s office announced early Sunday.

Extreme heat is one of the top five extreme weather hazards in Missoula County, and across the county the increase in the number of annual days above 90 degrees is a trend that is expected to continue as a result of climate change.

When Widespread Panic concerts were announced in Missoula in early February, both shows sold out in the matter of a few days.

Across Montana, concerns about data centers are spurring questions about what kind of oversight citizens and local governments have over large-scale projects.

The vote on the moratorium, which is now in effect immediately, comes shortly after the community rallied against a proposed AI data center in Bonner, which ultimately failed to get off the ground.

The Lolo National Forest announced that Missoula District Ranger Crystal Stonesifer has approved logging and prescribed burns on 87,000 acres of Forest Service land within the boundaries of the Wildfire Adapted Missoula project.

JW Westman writes, "Grazing livestock for pennies on the dollar on public lands takes precedence over every other use. This sense of entitlement from heavily subsidized ranchers is staggering."

More than 100 people from across the state gathered in the Montana Capitol rotunda on Wednesday to protest cuts to Medicaid as well as new work requirements to access the health insurance program.