The Montana Supreme Court announced on Tuesday it will issue a final ruling on the Legislature’s subpoenas, rejecting GOP lawmakers' request to dismiss the case.
UPDATED 06/22/21 10:30 p.m. After months of battling in court, Republican lawmakers are withdrawing their subpoenas demanding that Montana Supreme Court justices and their staff turn over their emails. Opponents of the GOP's request are pushing for a ruling on the legality of the subpoenas.
Montana’s U.S. senators are coming down on opposite sides of a sweeping Democratic-sponsored proposal to reform voting rules across the country. The bill’s prospects are uncertain after stalling on a party-line Senate vote Tuesday.
Montana lawmakers declined to override eight vetoes from Gov. Greg Gianforte on bills that saw close votes when passed during the 2021 legislative session.
State health officials heard opposition Thursday to a policy changing how transgender Montanans can amend their birth certificates. The public hearing drew health care professionals and LGBTQ advocates who urged officials to reject or ease the policy.
A Montana Supreme Court justice who voted in a 6-1 ruling to uphold a new law allowing the governor to appoint judges directly to open benches is also...
Montana’s governor will retain a new power to appoint judges directly to vacant benches without the input of the Judicial Nomination Commission. The...
State officials are laying the foundation to spend $275 million in federal funds to increase internet connectivity across Montana. It’s the state’s first widespread government-sponsored broadband program.
More than a half dozen wildlife bills have been signed into law, all with a similar vision for Montana: they suggest that there are too many predators on the landscape — and that numbers of animals like wolves and grizzly bears need to be reduced. Now, questions are proliferating over the future of predators in Montana. How that future looks lies at the intersection of law, values, and living with those species on the ground.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen plans to ask the state Supreme Court to overturn a temporary block on three laws restricting abortion.
The Montana Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that the state Legislature overstepped its authority when issuing subpoenas for court records.
