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| Feb 28, 2026 | Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Congressman Ryan Zinke Visit Montana Tech, Dig into the Future of Critical Minerals in Montana | BUTTE, MT — Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke visited Montana Tech University in Butte, MT, to tour the Lance College of Mines and Engineering advanced mineral labs, receive a briefing on t... |
| Feb 22, 2026 | The American-made hemp shirt experiment | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATT HUDSON, Montana Free Press
In 2020, a northcentral Montana hemp crop was harvested, beginning a trial run by two Montana companies to produce clothing without the material ever leaving the ... |
| May 21, 2025 | 14 visual journalists to join local news outlets in national initiative with CatchLight and Report For America | The incoming photographers represent the largest of cohort of visual journalists the initiative has ever recruited for full-time careers in local news.
By strengthening our visual storytelling, we can not only inform but inspire our communi... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | State Senate President Exonerated: Montana Free Press Under Fire Following Auditor's Report | Abby Moscatel photographed at her office on March 18th, 2025
The Montana State Legislative Auditor has fully exonerated Senate President Matt Regier, legislative staff, and attorney Abby Moscatel of Blacktail Law Group, following politicall... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | CatchLight announces 2025 newsroom partners, launches open call for photojournalists with Report for America | Flooding in the Bradley Point neighborhood of Savannah, Ga., following Tropical Storm Debby on August 12, 2024. Photo: Justin Taylor / The Current GA
Yaneth Pérez embraces her 4-month-old son Angel in San Francisco after leaving the Buena ... |
| Jun 8, 2024 | Health | Safety-net health clinics cut services and staff amid Medicaid ‘unwinding’ | The health centers’ lifeblood is revenue received from Medicaid, the state-federal subsidized health coverage for people with low incomes or disabilities. Because they serve a higher proportion of low-income people, the federally funded cen... |
| May 30, 2024 | Safety-net health clinics cut services and staff amid Medicaid unwinding | Nearly 800,000 Michiganders have been removed from Medicaid since redetermination
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One of Montana's largest health clinics that serves people in poverty ... |
| May 28, 2024 | La ley “No digas cambio climático” del gobernador DeSantis no va a funcionar con los votantes | Inscribirse para recibir el boletín semanal El Clima en la Boleta.
Cada lunes, en El Clima en la Boleta presentamos un tema para ayudarte a integrar el clima en la cobertura de la campaña de tu redacción. Considera compartir este boletín co... |
| May 28, 2024 | Governor DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Climate Change” Law Won’t Fly With Voters | Sign up for the weekly Climate on the Ballot newsletter.
Every Monday, in Climate on the Ballot, we pass along a topic to help you integrate climate into your newsroom’s campaign reporting. Consider sharing this newsletter with your colleag... |
| May 28, 2024 | Exclusive: AP expands local content partnerships ahead of 2024 election | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Associated Press has inked new deals with five local newsrooms to share and distribute content ahead of the 2024 election, executives told Axios.
Why it matters: AP is one of the few national medi... |
| May 13, 2024 | ICYMI: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Tours Infrastructure Projects in Western Montana, Meets with Students, Workers, and Tribal Leaders | WASHINGTON – As part of the Biden-Harris Administration's ongoing Investing in America Tour, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg traveled to Western Montana to see progress on transportation and infrastructure projects that are underway... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Health | The path to a better tuberculosis vaccine runs through Montana | By Jim Robbins | KFF Health News (TNS)
A team of Montana researchers is playing a key role in the development of a more effective vaccine against tuberculosis, an infectious disease that has killed more people than any other.
The BCG (Bacil... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Travel | Airbnb rentals could be harder to come by in Hawaii. Here’s why and when that might happen | Grace Toohey | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
Hawaii lawmakers are hoping that phasing out short-term rentals could help ease its worsening housing crisis, where locals face the highest housing costs in the nation and one of the worst rates of hom... |
| Apr 6, 2024 | Where abortion is on the ballot in November | Data: Axios research; Chart: Axios Visuals
Florida this week joined other states that have successfully, or are aiming to, put abortion on the ballot for voters in November — a winning issue for Democrats in the post-Roe era.
The big pictur... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | Bathroom bills are back — broader and stricter — in several states | Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | (TNS) KFF Health News
Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at bi... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Health | Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment | Katheryn Houghton | KFF Health News (TNS)
States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate their licenses.
Too often, health care workers wait to seek counse... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Health | Child care gaps in rural America threaten to undercut small communities | Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | KFF Health News (TNS)
Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana.
Garfield C... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | The federal government fails to provide Americans with reproductive health information they need. Here’s a better approach | Soon after the end of Roe v. Wade, President Biden issued an executive order attempting to ensure access to reproductive health care services nationally. One outcome of the executive order was the creation of a website, ReproductiveRights.g... |
| Nov 9, 2023 | Health | States reconsider religious exemptions for vaccinations in child care | Matt Volz | KFF Health News (TNS)
More than half the children who attend Munchkin Land Daycare near Billings, Montana, have special needs or compromised immune systems. The kids, who range in age from 4 months to 9 years, have conditions th... |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Health | Older adults want to ‘age in place,’ but their options are limited in most states | Robbie Sequeira | (TNS) Stateline.org
As older adults begin to outnumber young people in the United States in the coming decade, advocacy groups are challenging states to shift away from single-family zoning in favor of housing solutions th... |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Judge Extends Injunction Against Montana’s Anti-Drag Show Law | Losing must be the new winning. With a single exception (and that was only a public college), every state (or city) that has passed an anti-drag show law has seen it blocked by a federal court. And yet, this string of losses doesn’t seem to... |
| Oct 4, 2023 | New York Bans Facial Recognition Tech In Schools While Montana Decides Students Aren’t Covered By Its Statewide Ban | For the children. For the children. For the children. |
| Jun 12, 2023 | ‘Historic moment’: First climate action case goes on trial in US | A trial begins on Monday in Helena for Held v State of Montana, the first youth-led constitutional climate case to see its day in court in the United States.
In court papers filed in March 2020, 16 plaintiffs between the ages of five and 22... |
| May 18, 2023 | Congrats, People Of Montana: Your Governor Is About To Blow A Ton Of Taxpayer Money On An Unconstitutional TikTok Ban | “Constitutional originalists” and “fiscally conservative” Republican governors sure are having a moment these days throwing away millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars on totally unconstitutional laws that take away people’s 1st Amendme... |
| May 1, 2023 | Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues to regain the ability to speak in the legislature | Rep. Zooey Zephyr poses for a photo at the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont., on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Tommy Martino
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Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr is suing the state, House speaker, and sergeant-at-arms.
The lawsuit s... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Airbnb has descended on America's small cities. Now locals must decide how to contain it. | Redeem now
Bozeman, Montana, is a locus of the debate over short-term rentals that's erupting across the US.
Some residents blame them for rising housing costs, and others say they're essential to the economy.
US cities like Atlanta and Asp... |
| Apr 17, 2023 | Montana Passes Laughably Unconstitutional Law Banning TikTok | On Friday, Montana’s very silly legislature passed the first law in the nation banning Tiktok. The bill’s title is not subtle: SB 419: Ban tik-tok in Montana (they couldn’t even get the name right). |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Montana Republicans are appealing to anti-California sentiment to pass a slew of bipartisan pro-housing policies | Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) joins President Donald Trump at a "Make America Great Again" rally at the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport on November 3, 2018 in Belgrade, Montana. William Campbell/Getty Images
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| Feb 9, 2023 | States are flush with cash. It's setting off "tax cut fever." | Even as the U.S. economy shows signs of slowing down, many states around the U.S. are flush with cash, with their so-called rainy day funds estimated to reach a record high of $136.8 billion this fiscal year.
And lawmakers in more than half... |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks | Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Ending Involuntary Commitments Would Shift Burden of Montana’s Dementia Care to Strapped Communities | State lawmakers from both parties in Montana have shown support for a plan to stop the practice of committing people with Alzheimer’s disease, other types of dementia, or traumatic brain injuries without their consent to the troubled Montan... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Smart City Planning For Resilience: Earth Observation Data And Critical Infrastructure | Emiliano Kargieman - Founder and CEO - Satellogic. |
| Dec 2, 2021 | Hospitals refused to give patients ivermectin. Lockdowns and political pressure followed. | One Montana hospital went into lockdown and called police after a woman threatened violence because her relative was denied her request to be treated with ivermectin.
Officials of another Montana hospital accused public officials of threate... |
| May 10, 2021 | J. Lo and Ben Affleck were spotted together in Montana, which is set to gain a new House seat in redistricting | Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are spending time together 17 years after they broke off their high-profile engagement. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, engaged in the early 2000s, were sp... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Montana solar project wins in court, will triple state’s capacity | Montana judge James A. Manley had previously ruled that the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) had violated the rights of developer MTSUN by cutting both the rates paid for electricity and contract lengths under the Public Utility Regu... |
| Hospitals refused to give patients ivermectin. Lockdowns and political pressure followed. | One Montana hospital went into lockdown and called police after a woman threatened violence because her relative was denied her request to be treated with ivermectin.
Officials of another Montana hospital accused public officials of threate... |
