Montana lawmakers will debate bills to increase teacher pay and school funding, as well as improve early childhood numeracy ...

In addition to heightened funding for teacher pay, Gianforte announced his intention to increase state support for STEM and ...

Spring Creek is the largest coal mine in Montana and one of the largest in the country. In 2023, it produced more than 12 ...

The 69th Montana Legislature is officially underway. This week, host Shaylee Ragar and reporters Tom Lutey and Mara Silvers ...

In the same election Montana voters enshrined abortion rights, they also elected a conservative new chief justice of the state Supreme Court.

Tens of thousands of tons of contaminated soil at a shuttered aluminum plant just north of Columbia Falls will be ...

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The Montana Senate prepared for a Monday reboot while House lawmakers took their first bites at meaty social issues.

Policy proposals so far focus on state-funded financial subsidies to address high costs and low wages for child care workers.

Thousands of million-dollar homes benefit from a sizeable tax break intended for farms and ranches, Montana Free Press and ...

On the banks of the Flathead River, along an oxbow southeast of Kalispell, a pair of million-dollar homes sit adjacent to ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejects state petitions for local management, creates single recovery area for grizzlies in ...