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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld much of a decision to temporarily shorten Montana’s wolf trapping and snaring seasons to protect grizzly bears.
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President Biden nominates a CSKT attorney to fill a federal judgeship; Federal regulators enact new air quality standards for coal-fired power plants; Feds finalize a plan to re-establish grizzly bears in the Northern Cascades in Washington.
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A class action lawsuit is challenging Montana policies restricting transgender people from updating the gender markers on their birth certificates and driver's licenses.
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Montana school counselors, teachers and students are suing the state over a law that changed sex education policies. The plaintiffs say the law has a “chilling” effect on discussion of human sexuality in schools.
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State utility regulators Monday heard public testimony on a petition asking them to consider climate change impacts as part of their decision-making.
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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 Montana Supreme Court has cleared the way for proponents of a abortion rights ballot initiative to begin collecting signatures.
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Republican lawmakers have ordered the Secretary of State to send a proposed ballot initiative to a legislative committee for review before signature-gathering begins. The request escalates tensions between the lawmakers and the state Supreme Court, which said this week such a review wasn’t required.
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The Montana Primary Care Association is launching a program to help people who lost Medicaid during the state’s evaluation process reapply.
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A group of public education advocates sued the state’s leader of K-12 schools to prevent what they say is “an additional layer of red tape” to the opening of new public charter schools.