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Darrell Ehrlick

Civil liberties groups say state Supreme Court wrongly decided free speech case

The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression are asking the Montana Supreme Court to reconsider a 2003 decision as it relates to a current free speech case because they said it sets a dangerous precedent by placing addition hurdles for speech to

Ignorance isn’t bliss — it’s a tax strategy for Montana’s largest city

As the re-election campaigns spool up in Montana, a series of letters and newspapers columns have volleyed back and forth arguing about who is to blame for property taxes or businesses that have felt an increased burden. For all the debate centering on the extent that the 2025 Legislature

DEQ, EPA announce Park City Schools asbestos case from December is completed

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced that the clean-up and remediation of asbestos at the Park City Schools has been completed after a December windstorm tore the roof off a building, causing insulation containing asbestos to spread around the town. The

Groups challenge Trump’s ’emergency’ orders that allow a Bull Mountain Mine expansion

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court in Billings challenges the “emergency” orders issued by President Donald Trump that have allowed the Department of the Interior to bypass oversight and public comment and expand coal mining in the Bull Mountains. The lawsuit claims that emergency conditions don’t remotely

Data center dispute says Texas firm tricked Montana company

As artificial intelligence and data centers dominate conversations about technology, energy needs and political regulation, few things illustrate how deeply those issues have penetrated, even in Montana, than the fight that is happening in Broadview. Broadview, population 139, sits 31 miles from Billings, the state’s largest city. But a

Lawsuit: Forest Service ignoring more than 1 million acres of lynx habitat to OK logging, burning

A new lawsuit filed by four conservation groups alleges that the United States Forest Service approved a large logging project in southern Montana by ignoring habitat critical to Canada lynx and grizzly bears, disregarding scientific input and either disregarding or shortening public input. The suit, filed in federal court in

Sheehy mocks ‘socialist’ Green New Deal, but runs his house on solar

Montana’s junior U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy has frequently criticized renewable energy, but his own Gallatin County Home appears to run on “green energy crap,” which most people would likely call a solar and battery storage system. Sheehy’s choice of power seems to be at odds with his