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Montana's D.C. Delegation Weighs In On Infrastructure Plan

By • May 1, 2019


 President Donald Trump and a dozen Democratic lawmakers have agreed to work together on a $2 trillion dollar infrastructure package. But they put off for later the difficult questions of how to pay for it.

Most Meth In Montana Comes From Mexico, Missoula Detective Says

By • Apr 23, 2019
L to R: Ravalli County Drug Detective Scott Burlingham, Flathead County Sheriff Brian Heino and Missoula City Police Detective Guy Baker during a Missoula meeting about meth with Sen. Steve Daines, April 18, 2019.
Edward O'Brien / Montana Public Radio

Last week Montana’s Republican Sen. Steve Daines hosted a roundtable in Missoula to talk with police and prosecutors about the devastating toll methamphetamine is taking on western Montana. The event also offered a revealing look at the business end of the meth trade.

Montana D.C. Delegates React To Mueller Report Release

By • Apr 18, 2019

Montana’s Congressional delegates are drawing a range of conclusions from the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Live Video: Mueller Report Release Press Conference

By NPR News • Apr 17, 2019
U.S. Attorney General William Barr.
U.S. DOJ (PD)

Attorney General William Barr plans to deliver a press conference from the Justice Department Thursday morning ahead of the expected release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. A redacted version of the report is expected to be released on Thursday.

Watch live here starting at 7:30 a.m. MDT Thursday.

Former US Ambassador Talks Trump And Russia-US Relations

By • Apr 10, 2019
Michael McFaul
Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service

The former U.S. Ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, Michael McFaul, is in Montana to lecture Wednesday, April 10 in Missoula and Thursday, April 11 in Helena. The Montana native is now a Stanford University professor, best-selling author and analyst for NBC News and The Washington Post.

He sat down in our studios to talk politics and foreign policy with MTPR's Sally Mauk.

Trump Issues New Permit For Stalled Keystone XL Pipeline

By & Matthew Daly • Mar 29, 2019
Protesters in Great Falls, Montana rally in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, May 23, 2018.
Corin Cates-Carney / Montana Public Radio

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an apparent bid to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a new presidential permit for the project, two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed.

President Trump Awards Medal Of Honor To Late Bozeman Sergeant

By • Mar 27, 2019

A Bozeman man who sacrificed himself to save three fellow soldiers from an Iraqi suicide bomber was posthumously awarded the nation’s highest military honor Wednesday.

On the morning of June 1st, 2007 Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins and his three-man squad intercepted two suspected terrorists outside Baghdad, Iraq.

Critics Seek To Block Easing Of Oil And Gas Rules In West

By • Mar 27, 2019
Sage grouse.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Pacific Southwest Region (PD)

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Conservation groups are asking a federal judge to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on energy companies that were meant to protect a struggling Western bird species.

Attorneys for Western Watersheds Project, Prairie Hills Audubon Society and two other groups made the request Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho.

Montana Senators On Mueller Report, Climate Change

By • Mar 26, 2019
Sen. Jon Tester
U.S. Senate

Montana’s senior Senator says Americans deserve to see special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report to make up their own minds.

While Mueller’s report found President Donald Trump’s campaign did not collude with the Russian government, Attorney General Bill Barr made headlines asserting there isn’t sufficient evidence Trump obstructed justice.

Panel To Review Indian Health System's Treatment Of Children

By Associated Press • Mar 26, 2019
Indian Health Service logo.
Indian Health Service / IHS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is creating a task force to investigate how an Indian Health Service doctor was able to sexually assault children in his care.

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