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Hotel room rates on the Las Vegas Strip have hit record levels, but is it a price-fixing scheme or the result of record inflation and rising costs for everything from food to labor?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finally agreed to conduct more sampling for toxins at the Smurfit-Stone mill site.

The bill would allow owners of gambling machines to report “negative income” and deduct it from their total earnings so they don’t pay the state’s 15% gambling tax when their machines pay out more in winnings than they earn.

The billionaire-backed Freedom Foundation has set foot in Montana with its goal to dismantle unions and fight bosses who have “ripped off workers.”

Supporters said it would address some local communities’ concerns about the industry, but business owners called it an unnecessary imposition.

The Legislature will consider a bill that aims to make sure people who are found guilty of unemployment fraud pay the state back.

The company on Wednesday said it hired Chris Laslovich for the new role as the telecom company works to build relationships across the state, local and federal level.

With its lobbyist on the ground in Helena, the City of Missoula is pushing against a number of bills it feels lean too heavily toward the rights of landlords at the expense of renters, or usurps the city's right of self-governance, staff said Monday night.

A panel of lawmakers tabled and then revived one of the flagship bills in Gov. Gianforte's tax package, which would spend a quarter of the state’s nearly $2 billion surplus on property tax relief for homeowners.

Two proposals would make it easier for professionals with out-of-state licenses to work in Montana, but that tactic likely won’t be enough to fill the demand for mental health providers.