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DOC progressing on massive expansion at Montana State Prison

DEER LODGE – A massive expansion at Montana State Prison is well underway outside of Deer Lodge, with one of three housing buildings on its way to completion. State corrections officials were on hand Wednesday morning for a tour of the facility, which will add around 1,000 prison beds. Montana

State, UM, MHSA build extensive air quality monitoring system

Across the state of Montana, there have been wide gaps in the state’s wildfire smoke detection safety net. PurpleAirs in Schools — a Department of Environmental Quality program now in its third year — seeks to close the net with hundreds of low-cost, but effective, air quality sensors installed at

Democrats hold Congressional, Senate primary debates in Helena

All three Democratic candidates for Montana’s eastern district want President Donald Trump impeached and called on Congress to act. The three took the stage on Sunday at the Helena Avenue Theatre as candidates for both U.S. House seats, as well as an open U.S. Senate spot, debated

State paid millions to organizations associated with politically-connected couple

A high-profile Republican political consultant and his wife, an attorney closely associated with the state’s Department of Justice, have close ties with Western Media Partners, a company that has received more than $1.7 million from the state since 2022, records show. Secretary of State documents list Emily

Plaintiffs in 2023 redefining sex lawsuit seek to add on similar 2025 law

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state challenging the constitutionality of a 2023 law passed by the Legislature redefining sex have now filed to challenge a similar 2025 law. Senate Bill 458 (2023) and Senate Bill 437 (2025) are two similar laws, both sponsored by Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kila,

Helena responds to AG’s sanctuary city cease-and-desist letter

The City of Helena responded to an investigation by Attorney General Austin Knudsen into whether the municipality was breaking state law with an immigration resolution and asked for him to respond if proposed revisions “address your concerns.” The letter, dated April 1, a formal response to the investigation, identifies what

Cancelled Clancy event becomes example of censorship at U.S. Senate hearing

At a Democrat-led Congressional hearing in late February, children’s author and former TV writer Bess Kalb used a previously unreported incident in Clancy where she had to cancel a book reading event to illustrate a point about the broader impacts of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on the