The deal softens a proposed deductible spike, but leaves monthly premium increases in place.

Lee, Montana's biggest newspaper company, will grow its footprint to nearly all of the state's major markets with the acquisition.

Joe Ricketts founded TD Ameritrade and his family owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team. The billionaire also owns the 1,300-acre Jackson Fork Ranch south of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Ricketts wants to sav...

New Census Bureau estimates show where air conditioning is most — and least — common in Montana.

Less than 48 hours after putting the initiative on the ballot, the court reverses course.

Officials say that the statue has sustained extensive damage and that repairs are ‘infeasible.’

With midterm election approaching, affordability is shaping how Montanans plan to vote.

Butte-Silver Bow County said it intends to comply, but is unsure how.

Amy Eddy and Dan Wilson are competing in a nonpartisan — but increasingly politicized — race for the state’s highest court.

Montana voters give low marks to elected officials, say state is on the “wrong track.”

Gabriel Metcalf lives directly across the busy, four-lane Broadwater Avenue from Broadwater Elementary School. Many parents, school officials and law enforcement officers watching his current actions ...

“When I started in the ‘80s, cocaine was the drug that we saw here. We saw some violence out of that. The drug dealers would be fighting for turf. There were a lot of bars. Prostitution was prevalent....

Charlie Brereton has helmed the agency for four years.

Local officials say a first-in-the-nation state law is hamstringing the public’s power to regulate unpopular development.

Upper Seven Law announced that 24 "unlawfully detained individuals" had been released from the Cascade County Detention Center. More are expected to be released as the court considers further petition...

After more than 130 years, Fort Peck community members welcomed home the remains of Christine Redstone, Peter Howe and Richard Morgan.

Judge shields political committee’s use of AI-generated political ads from Montana law.

Quantica has agreed to use local, unionized labor when possible, under a memorandum of understanding it signed with the Southeastern Montana Building and Construction Trades Council. Riley McCauley, v...

The Montana Chamber of Commerce was roasted for failing to show up to debate I-194.

The secretary of state’s legal counsel told lawmakers they could have gotten the information from other sources.

Voters report ongoing challenges to afford housing, healthcare, groceries and gas.

With money for the state healthcare plan running low, the Montana Department of Administration is hiking rates.

Poll finds divides fall along political party, gender and age lines.

A new poll finds widespread opposition to building data centers in Montana communities

Patients with disabilities have long struggled with administrative hoops, blunders, and confusion when trying to qualify for federally subsidized health coverage because of their illness. Now, new fed...

Democratic challenger Brian Miller has increased his name recognition, but Republican incumbent Downing is still heavily favored.

The closure of the 165-bed temporary Johnson Street shelter has left the Poverello Center at capacity and has strained other organizations serving people living on the street.

The recent Montana Free Press-Rutgers Eagleton poll shows the two candidates in a toss-up race for Montana’s Western District.

The multi-car derailment forced the cancellation of classes and the temporary closure of area roads.

The Forest Service is looking to change how roadless areas, roads and motorized travel are managed on public lands. Here’s what the proposed rule changes could mean for access, recreation and conserva...

Alme leads all Senate candidates, but Bodnar is gaining traction with voters.

Leadership PAC and party committee donations signal who holds institutional power in an election. In Montana, that power is overwhelmingly Republican.

House candidate Brian Miller has filed a lawsuit seeking disqualification of some signatures.

Montana gardeners are seeing the effects of a changing climate, from hotter, drier summers to shifting growing seasons and new challenges. Learn how local gardeners are adapting—and what the future ma...

President Donald Trump’s plan to have the postal service screen mail ballots falls in face of printing deadline.

A River Runs Through It Act would protect parts of Blackfoot River watershed, open others to logging and motorized use. Zinke plans to introduce the bill next week.

Gov. Greg Gianforte wants to lower income taxes again. Critics say that would mean cutting government services.

The new facility is slated to open in 2027.

Cromwell is one of multiple local officials who find themselves at the center of a politically fraught fight about how much to cooperate with federal immigration agents.

A young Montana archaeologist has evidence that Clovis people lived in the Greater Yellowstone high country at least 13,000 years ago – a time when the mountains should have been covered in ice.

A U.S. District Court judge has temporarily barred the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from removing American Prairie bison from federal grazing leases

Missoula postal workers are raising concerns that plans to remove a letter-sorting machine from the city’s distribution center will slow mail delivery in western Montana. While a USPS spokesperson sai...

Repair work from a century-old Montana mining disaster is moving stubbornly forward. Officials believe it could last another 12 years.

Two years after launching a new facility in northeast Montana, Brixtel Defense’s ambitions look like a shot in the dark.

The Quantica employees gave the same amount to the same candidates and on the same days in 2024.

Lawmakers say Christi Jacobsen needs to explain what voter data she shared with federal officials.

Contract dispute centers on employee health benefits and pay incentive structures.

An orthopedic surgeon, Greg Tierney was the clinical leader at Benefis through challenges like COVID and an external financial fraud case that involved hospital leaders.

A $32.3 million renovation project began this summer at the Capitol, involving the building’s dome and “Montana” statue.

Judge: plaintiffs’ responsibility to ‘read and understand the statute they were proceeding under.’