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State utility regulators have reopened public comment on a petition that would require them to consider the impacts of climate change as part of their decision-making.
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A panel of Republican lawmakers met on Monday to discuss their concerns over what they’ve called “troubling judicial rulings.” Democratic legislators declined to participate.
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A campaign for a constitutional abortion rights amendment in Montana may soon begin collecting signatures to put the measure before voters this fall. But that process has been pushed back by Republican officials challenging the initiative’s content and by legal rulings.
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The laws championed by Republican legislators would have eliminated same-day voter registration, restricted acceptable types of voter ID, restricted who can get an absentee ballot and regulated ballot collection efforts.
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A committee of state lawmakers has voted to rebuke Montana's superintendent of public schools.
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Montana’s Missing Persons Task Force has not met since last summer despite the Legislature funding the group for the next decade.
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Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is walking a fine line as he seeks a fourth term. And this year could determine control of the Senate. Tester’s appeal-to-the-middle brand of politics faces another tough test in increasingly polarized times.
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A state court has ordered Montana’s Governor and Secretary of State to let lawmakers vote on whether to override the veto on a 2023 bill to redistribute marijuana sales tax revenue.
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The federal government expands incentives for schools to electrify their bus fleets as questions regarding whether electric vehicles can hold up in Montana’s cold winters arise.
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A lawsuit is challenging a new Montana law that directs public school funding to special needs students outside of the public school system.