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Local governments in Montana are receiving federal money to expand composting and food waste reduction projects. Montana’s K-12 education agency is looking for a new way to pay for a major college readiness exam. Missoula’s airport set a new passenger record in 2023 and officials expect another strong showing this year.
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Montana’s influenza season is ramping up. Federal health officials say this year’s flu season is hitting the U.S. harder and earlier than in years past.
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Local option sales taxes on recreational marijuana appear to have been favored during Montana’s midterm election. Efforts to ban recreational sales had a more mixed response.
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A group of parents known as Stand Up Montana brought two cases in Gallatin and Missoula counties where mask rules were implemented in districts last school year in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
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About two-thirds of Montana counties are seeing medium to high impacts on healthcare facilities as a result of rising COVID-19 cases.
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The appointment follows a new law passed during the 2021 legislative session that eliminates the judicial nomination commission and allows the governor to appoint judges to vacancies.
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Nationally, KHN and The Associated Press have documented that more than 300 public health leaders, weary of abuse and of their expertise being questioned, have resigned or retired as the country struggles to recover from the worst pandemic in a century. They have been replaced by people often inexperienced yet tasked with repairing the trust of a polarized and fatigued public.
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Gallatin County prosecutors have filed misdemeanor charges against an employee at a Bozeman bar accusing him of obstructing a public health officer from inspecting the bar’s compliance with pandemic restrictions.
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When kids were sent home from school last year during the pandemic, 11-year-old Ezra Graham thought it was a good time to start a news podcast. Chérie…
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BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man has been given a six-month suspended jail sentence for submitting a voter registration application under the name…