Misty Ann Giles will be paid $145,000, a 28% increase from the past director.
All of the bills passed second reading by large, bipartisan margins.
In an uncommon procedural move by Democrats, House Bill 427 was indefinitely postponed on the Senate floor.
The bill limits the hunt to muzzleloaders with iron sights, and traditional firearms such as flintlock, percussion cap and matchlock designs r…
Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed a bill expanding the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission from five members to seven.
Gov. Greg Gianforte said Tuesday he is ending a bison management plan that would have allowed the wide-ranging animals to be restored in more …
Proponents of the bill said it rectifies languishing property tax revenues for counties when applications are stalled.
“The exercise of eminent domain is the preferred constitutional manner in which the recreating public acquires public access easements, rather…
The committee revived a previously dead bill to drop the state's top income tax rate and also advanced an income tax simplification bill.
Montana Democrats on Monday filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen.
Broken down by counties, just 12 of Montana’s 56 counties have a rate of broadband access equal to or higher than the nationwide average.
Eleven lawmakers have been identified as close contacts.
The two bills were carried by Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy, D-Crow Agency.
Both measures were identified as top priorities by Republican Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen.
The new law permanently lifts requirements that were paused during the pandemic.
Opponents say the measure unnecessarily harms transgender youth without "saving women's sports," as the bill purports to do.
"We do not have widespread problems, let alone fraud," Rep. Wendy McKamey, R-Ulm, said,
The committee chair said he had prepared a list of roughly 40 questions for the Supreme Court Administrator.
One branch of government in Montana rejecting the power of another would be unprecedented, except this was the second time it'd happened in le…
The new law requires that either county commissioners or the city council, whichever entity oversees a local health board, approve of that boa…
Additionally, after exhibiting mild symptoms Wednesday, the director of the Department of Administration was tested for COVID-19 and received …
The bill had seen stiff opposition from conservation groups who have labeled the it as a gateway toward making federal land transfer more palatable.
One area that drew universal support would increase the maximum payment allowed to landowners enrolled in Block Management, upping it to $25,0…
Republican lawmakers in the last week have sought to investigate the Supreme Court on matters including email retention and using state comput…
Each week, bureau reporters Seaborn Larson and Sam Wilson, along with deputy bureau chief Tom Kuglin, bureau chief Holly Michels and host Thom…
Sen. Jason Ellsworth, a Hamilton Republican who chairs the panel and is a deputized public health officer, was notified of the of the case lat…
HB 632, appropriating more than $2 billion coming to the state from the federal American Rescue Plan Act, passed a preliminary Senate vote 32-18.