Trump Administration

The Trump Administration has made quick work dismantling aspects of the federal government it calls wasteful or inefficient. Caught up in those cuts is the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires the federal government to take environmental impacts into consideration.

On Friday, roughly 100 veterans gathered outside the state Capitol in part to protest any job cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which serves nearly 50,000 Montana veterans.

Montanans voice mounting concern about the impact of federal budget cuts and tariffs. Montana's governor and congressional delegation don't seem to share those concerns. And the Montana Legislature faces a busy, and possibly contentious second act.

Ravalli County celebrates the grand opening of a new VA Clinic in Hamilton. It will serve the valley’s veterans with expanded services in a much bigger facility. According to the Montana VA, veterans make up over 10 percent of Ravalli County’s total population.

The National Park Service has reported record breaking visitation last year. But agency employees are now being told to avoid talking about those numbers, according to a reported internal memo.

Montana’s public universities believe they’re in compliance with recent Trump Administration orders banning diversity practices in higher ed. At least one campus is quickly combing through its departments to make sure that’s the case.

Press freedom and press access are at stake in the fight over the Gulf of Mexico's name. Legislators want to make sure you use the right bathroom. A climate change court ruling is behind several bills to change Montana's environmental laws. And Republican lawmakers join Vice President Vance in making fun of climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The Trump Administration says it won’t enforce discrimination protections for transgender students expanded during former President Joe Biden’s term. The move has support from Montana’s leader of K-12 education.

The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October.The court Tuesday said…

A group of bipartisan state lawmakers released a letter Tuesday urging members of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee to pass the Confederated Salish…