Committees will consider Medicaid funding, behavioral health investments and more By Mara Silvers MONTANA FREE PRESS Lawmakers on two key committees plan to take preliminary votes...
THE DAILY MONTANAN Senate Bill 99, which aims to ban gender-affirming care for transgender children in Montana and subject medical professionals who perform it to criminal charges, passed...
By Alex Sakariassen MONTANA FREE PRESS The buzz of a dozen conversations in the Capitol Rotunda all but drowned out the statements and policy pleas of...
By Bella Butler MANAGING EDITOR HELENA – A committee of Montana lawmakers voted April 5 not to support a ballot initiative that would grant the greatest...
By Eric Dietrich MONTANA FREE PRESS HELENA — Meetings of the Montana Legislature’s tax policy committees, particularly the interim group that meets in off-seasons when the Legislature...
Town Crier “Briefs from the Region” (1) – 9/13/21 A fourth lawsuit has reached Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen’s desk challenging new voting laws passed this last...
Town Crier “Briefs from the Region” (1) – 8/17/21 Planned Parenthood has sued the state of Montana over four laws—derived from House Bills 136, 140, 171 and...
Town Crier “Briefs from the Region” (1) – 8/3/21 During this year’s legislative session, a series of bills were passed in Montana and Idaho that lengthened...
Town Crier “Briefs from the Region” (2) – 7/19/21 Amelia Marquez, 27, from Billings, and John Doe, 22, a Bozeman-born man, are suing the state of...
Town Crier “Briefs from the Region” (2) – 7/1/21 California has blocked state-funded travel to Montana over the passage of Montana’s House Bill 112 and Senate...