Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services

Montana lawmakers Monday narrowly voted down a bill that would have funded suicide screening for middle and high school students.

State health officials could soon have more oversight of alternative therapeutic youth residential programs. Several of the facilities have been accused of abusing children in recent years.

If you recently received a nutrition assistance card from the state health department you didn’t apply for, you may not want to throw it out. The cards come from a delayed program to help feed students during the summer.

Groups suing the state over restrictions barring birth certificate amendments are asking a district court to hold the state health department in civil contempt.

The House Business and Labor Committee heard testimony on a bill Tuesday that would shorten the training required to serve alcohol to lessen the burden for trainers and trainees.

More than two dozen health care providers, mental health advocates and Medicaid patients are arguing against a proposed state rule that would further restrict state coverage of abortion. One organization spoke in support of the rule during a public hearing on Thursday.

The state health department says it will reinstate a rule that bars transgender Montanans from updating the gender markers on their birth certificates. The Montana Supreme Court is now involved in the latest step in a murky legal fight over the policy.

An early spike in influenza cases is emerging in Montana. That’s in stark contrast to recent years when zero to few cases were reported at this time of the year.

The amended agreement with Alvarez & Marsal went into effect Oct 1.

The Montana Department of Health and Human Services is reminding residents that monthly benefits for the nutrition assistance program for women, infants and children, or WIC, increased in October.