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After years of delay, EPA promises Butte community that a new lead action level is coming

EPA’s regional administrator spoke Tuesday night at Montana Technological University and said something locals have verbalized for years. “We all know that the 1,200 number, that’s not acceptable, that it needs to come down, and that’s going to by a pretty significant extent,” said Cyrus Western,

Helena Commission votes 4-1 to limit HPD work with federal immigration agents

As the national debate over immigration enforcement’s role in public safety grows, Helena on Monday made its own stance after months of local outcry: Helena police will not help federal immigration agents unless legally required. At a Jan. 26 meeting that saw more than 300 attendees spilling into three

‘Get it over with’: GOP legislator presses secretary of state for answers on mailers

After the Republican Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen came under fire for sending 467,000 postcards across Montana, a fellow Republican legislator is pushing for more information. Rep. Jerry Schillinger, the Republican chairman of the Legislative Audit Committee, said in a letter to Jacobsen’s office on Friday that the

Butte jury directs DPHHS to pay $5.5M award for negligence in girl's rape

Following two weeks of trial testimony, a jury on Friday found Montana’s child protection agency negligent for allegedly taking months to adequately inform police that a girl had been raped and gave birth at age 12. The girl is now 23 and the jury directed the Montana Department of

Three Republican state legislators sue the state of Montana over major property tax reform

Critics of the 2025 Legislature's hallmark property tax relief bill made good on their promise to challenge the measure on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit in Gallatin County that seeks to undermine core tenets of the package. Three Republican legislators sued the Montana Department of Revenue, claiming that the

Montana Secretary of State mailers cost nearly $200K, officials mum on funding source

Montana Secretary of State mailers cost nearly $200K, officials mum on funding source

The contentious postcards sent to hundreds of thousands of Montanans earlier this month by the state’s top elections official cost nearly $200,000 to print and mail — a price the Montana Secretary of State’s Office repeatedly declined to disclose over the past week. The postcards, which feature Montana

State lawyers ask Montana judge to dismiss lawsuit against sex-ed notification laws

State attorneys said in court on Thursday that advocacy groups are on a “wild goose chase” to find examples of students, parents or educators who have been harmed by two laws affecting how sexual education and gender identity can be taught in Montana public schools. Lawyers for the ACLU of