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Two Former NBA Players Say They Plan to Enter WNBA Draft

Two former NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom, say they intend to declare for the WNBA draft in 2027, arguing that the league’s collective bargaining agreement fails to… Read More

Medal of Honor Monday: Army Cpl. Jake Allex

Army Cpl. Jake Allex earned the Medal of Honor for extraordinary courage while leading his men forward under heavy fire during the Battle of Amiens in World War I. Allex… Read More

Montana Senate Race Turns Combative as Withdrawal Deadline Nears

Pressure to narrow the field in Montana’s U.S. Senate race intensified this week, but with a Monday evening deadline approaching, none of the candidates has shown any willingness to step… Read More

Daines Taxpayer Privacy Provision Clears Senate Finance Committee

A bipartisan provision championed by Sen. Steve Daines to sharply increase penalties for unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information cleared the Senate Finance Committee as part of a broader tax administration… Read More

Knudsen Extends MVD Fee Waivers for Citizenship Marker Through September

Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced the Montana Motor Vehicle Division is extending its fee waiver for driver license and identification card renewals and replacements through September 30, following a strong… Read More

Sheehy Introduces Two Bipartisan Bills

Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy introduced two pieces of legislation in recent weeks — one bipartisan bill to strengthen Buy American requirements for school meals and one to extend nationwide concealed… Read More

UM Study Finds Meagher County a Model for Rural Revival

A new University of Montana study finds that Meagher County — one of the least densely populated counties in the continental United States — has quietly become one of Montana’s… Read More

Federal judge blocks New York’s mask ban for ICE agents

New York’s push to unmask ICE agents is on hold after a federal judge blocked provisions of a newly minted state law that restricts local cooperation with immigration crackdowns. In… Read More

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment to avoid Senate testimony

The man who led the U.S. response to the global pandemic in 2020 told Congress on Wednesday he wouldn’t answer questions about it. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National… Read More

Brown Stops $5M in Fraud Targeting Montana Native Communities

Montana State Auditor James Brown announced his office has helped stop more than $5 million in unsupported payouts by Mountain Health Co-Op, making it the second health insurer in Montana… Read More

Fugitive accused in $547 million Medicare fraud scheme captured

A man accused of orchestrating a $547 million Medicare fraud scheme through diagnostic laboratories in Louisiana and other states has been captured overseas and returned to the United States after… Read More

Montana Senate Race in Chaos as DSCC Dumps Bankhead

Montana’s U.S. Senate race entered a turbulent new phase as the national Democratic Party’s campaign arm publicly declared it would not support the party’s own nominee, a major veterans organization… Read More

Montana Auditor Prevents $1M in Fraud in Second Quarter

Montana State Auditor James Brown announced his Securities Division prevented more than $1 million in fraud-related losses for Montanans in the second quarter of 2026, bringing the year-to-date total to… Read More

Independent Candidates Deepen Democratic Divide in Montana

Independent candidates have officially qualified for Montana’s U.S. Senate race and the state’s eastern congressional district, deepening a strategic divide among Democrats over whether the nonpartisan campaigns help or hurt… Read More

Sheehy Sworn Into U.S. Navy Reserve by President Trump

Sen. Tim Sheehy rejoined the U.S. Navy Reserve in a ceremony at the Oval Office on Tuesday, where President Donald Trump administered the oath of enlistment to the Montana Republican… Read More

Gianforte, Burgum Announce Proposal to Return Grizzly Bear Management to States

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum joined Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and Idaho Gov. Brad Little in Big Sky on Tuesday to announce a proposed federal rule that… Read More

Brown Denies $18 Million in Unjustified Insurance Increases

Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance James Brown saved Montanans more than $18 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 by denying unjustified insurance rate increases, the agency announced. Brown’s actions saved… Read More

U.S. Targets Khamenei’s Moneyman, Iranian Exchange Houses

The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions Friday on a Dubai-based Iranian financier accused of managing a global network of assets for Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, along… Read More

Gianforte Suspends PSC Commissioner Molnar for One Year

Gov. Greg Gianforte suspended Public Service Commissioner Brad Molnar without pay for one year, effective immediately, citing findings from two independent investigations that concluded Molnar had engaged in sexual harassment,… Read More

Montana Students Earn Recognition at 2026 National History Day Contest

Thirty-seven Montana students competed at the 2026 National History Day National Contest, held June 14-18 at the University of Maryland in College Park, in what organizers described as the largest… Read More

Feds buy two immigration detention centers for $1.5 billion

Department of Homeland Security purchases facilities in California’s Kern and San Diego counties Private prison operator CoreCivic has sold two Southern California immigration detention centers to the federal government for… Read More

Concerns raised that KIDS Act threatens Americans’ online privacy, free speech

Legislation meant to protect American teens and children online recently passed the U.S. House with strong bipartisan support, but civil liberties groups are warning that the bill could have unintended… Read More

Trump Tax Cuts Delivered $82 Billion in Relief, Treasury Reports

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released an analysis of the first filing season under the Working Families Tax Cuts, the sweeping tax legislation President Trump signed into law one… Read More

Cromwell’s Office Under Fire Over No-Jail Plea Deal

A Gallatin County man accused of strangling his now-deceased wife has been offered a plea deal that would result in no prison time, drawing public outrage and calls for the… Read More

America Turns 250: A Nation Marks Its Semiquincentennial

Two hundred and fifty years after 56 delegates affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, the United States is marking its semiquincentennial — one of the rarest… Read More

Brown Secures Nearly $60,000 for Montana Securities Fraud Restitution Fund

Montana Commissioner of Securities and Insurance James Brown announced that a series of enforcement settlements with entities that failed to properly file required notices of business activity in Montana has… Read More

Trump Accounts Launch July 4 With Billions in Private Backing

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced it will accept large philanthropic contributions of publicly traded stock to support Trump Accounts, the federal child investment program launching July 4 to… Read More

Watchdog asks Interior to investigate National Wildlife Federation political spending

A watchdog group wants the Department of the Interior to investigate whether the National Wildlife Federation misused federal grant money tied to political spending in Montana’s 2024 U.S. Senate race…. Read More

U.S. Supreme Court allows late mail-in ballots to be counted

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Monday, ruled that states can accept and count mail-in ballots received after the federal Election Day. The decision comes out of… Read More

Bodnar’s “Independent” Bid Built on Democratic Money, Operatives

Seth Bodnar has spent his Senate campaign positioning himself as a red-state outsider unbeholden to party machinery, but the financial picture behind his candidacy tells a more complicated story than… Read More

Zinke Celebrates $53.8 Million in PILT Funding for Montana Counties

Western Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke celebrated the release of $53,889,068 in Payments in Lieu of Taxes funding for Montana counties, an increase of more than $7.3 million over 2025 disbursements…. Read More

Knudsen Leads 23-State Effort Urging Senate to Confirm Blanche

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as the next attorney general… Read More

Federal panel proposes new definition for sports betting

(The Center Square) – Betting on a football score isn’t gambling. At least not according to the federal Commodities Futures Trading Commission. The commission recently proposed rule changes to strengthen… Read More

Barry Diller Bids $18 Billion to Take MGM Resorts Private

Barry Diller’s People Inc. submitted a non-binding proposal to MGM Resorts International’s board on June 1 to acquire the roughly 74% of the company it doesn’t already own, in a… Read More

Montana History Festival to Mark Heritage Center’s Full Opening

Five-day celebration in Helena will run June 24-28 with free tours, workshops and a Capitol Lawn finale The Montana Historical Society will host the Montana History Festival from Wednesday, June… Read More

DOE Names Travis Kavulla as Bonneville Power Administration Chief

Former Montana utility regulator will lead the $4 billion federal power-marketing agency serving the Pacific Northwest U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced Travis Kavulla as administrator and CEO of… Read More

Medal of Honor Monday: Army Pvt. Joe Gandara

Army Pvt. Joe Gandara was a paratrooper who fought in France during World War II. Little is known about him other than that he was the son of Mexican immigrants…. Read More

Knudsen Waives MVD Fees for Citizenship Marker This July

Attorney general says MVD will waive renewal and replacement fees in July for Montanans adding the state’s new eagle-in-flight citizenship marker Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced that the state’s… Read More

Texas Supreme Court rejects attempt to block beach closures for SpaceX launches

Siding with SpaceX and the attorney general’s office, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that environmental groups did not have a right to sue to preserve public access to… Read More

Montana State named best school for military spouses and veterans in the country

Abutting the first-floor hallway of Montana State University’s Romney Hall, the Travis W. Atkins Veteran Support Center resembles a typical campus study space. But through the center doors is much more. Equipped with rows of tables, printers and grab-and-go… Read More