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Hawaii enacts law modeled on ‘Montana Plan’

Montanans will have the chance to vote on a law aimed at limiting the amount of money spent in elections, following an announcement on Tuesday that the Transparent Election Initiative had exceeded the required number of signatures needed to get on the ballot. And while the idea to use state

Pondera County, environmental groups petition EPA over refinery wastewater

Pondera County and several advocacy groups have filed a petition against the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court to stop an energy company from dumping wastewater into a nearby aquifer. Montana Renewables, a Great Falls biofuels company, has an agreement with the owner of the wells to dispose of wastewater

Bankhead takes swings at Bodnar, calls for him to resign race

Alani Bankhead, running for the U.S. Senate, launched an attack Monday on the University of Montana campus against independent candidate Seth Bodnar, its former president. Bankhead, who won the Democratic nomination for Senate on June 2, argued Bodnar did not have the capacity to lead and still “deflects” responsibility

Montana Land Board discusses shooting range in Lincoln area

Recreational shooting organizations want to build a public shooting facility near Lincoln, but an attempt to secure state land for it failed on Monday on procedural grounds. Lincoln Sportsmen’s Club and Montana Shooting Sports Association jointly submitted a proposal to the land board asking it to authorize a transfer,

‘Step on the gas,’ says state GOP Chairman Art Wittich

MISSOULA — Montana needs a Republican party because it’s the most effective organization to fight socialism — “end of story,” said state GOP Chairman Art Wittich. “You cannot name any other association that is as effective at electing people into government to fight socialism, not big oil PACs, not the NRA,

‘Really valuable’: Anaconda loses its newspaper

ANACONDA — For as long as Robbie Dee can remember being an adult, he’s been a subscriber to the Anaconda Leader newspaper. The Anaconda native and longtime advertiser with the Leader is hanging on to the final edition of the 55-year-old two days per week local paper, which

Work still taking place, lawsuit unfolding on residential property taxes

Did you get skunked out of a property tax reduction? If so, you’re an outlier, but the 2027 Montana Legislature will work to help outliers, said Rep. Llew Jones, a Conrad Republican and House Appropriations Committee chairman who pushed through property tax relief bills in 2025. Jones pointed to