Daily Montanan

A book written by the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana appears to contain passages lifted from outside sources without credit.

A Montana newspaper refuses to comply with a state justice department demand to remove an internal document from a recent article. On August 16th the Daily Montanan published a redacted copy of a nearly 400-page survey. It detailed employees’ concerns about Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s management of the highway patrol as well distrust within upper levels of the agency.

The federal program that helps people pay broadband internet bills stopped accepting new enrollments this week due to lack of funds. A longtime public schools administrator is taking the reins at a school on the Blackfeet Reservation struggling with financial woes.

Great Falls Public Schools’ trustees are asking Cascade County commissioners to take over election duties from the clerk and recorder’s office. The trustees cite a strained relationship with Clerk and Recorder Sandra Merchant, as well as concerns over her handling of the school election in May.

Montana’s attorney general has joined nine other states in suing the federal government over rate increases for national flood insurance.

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