Aaron Bolton

Mobile crisis teams are struggling. These are the teams of mental health professionals that respond to behavioral health calls instead of police. Those programs don't have reliable funding, and the teams that remain say they need help.

Today 16 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in support of children's hospitals and doctors that have provided gender-affirming care for minors, contending the Trump administration has acted illegally in pressuring doctors and children's hospitals to stop.

Gender-affirming health care for minors is becoming harder to get, even in states where it's legal. The White House is threatening to cut funding from hospitals that provide it.

A dramatic increase in the number of homeless seniors nationwide is overwhelming services for unhoused people.

The number of seniors who are homeless has increased dramatically. This "gray wave" is being driven by inflation and a lack of affordable housing, especially for older people with disabilities.

A Supreme Court ruling eliminated the requirement of sheltering homeless people in some states. Advocates worry the ruling also motivates cities hostile to shelters to get rid of them altogether.

Famed Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a project dedicated to promoting and celebrating ecological healing. That led him to Glacier National Park to play for a herd of newly reintroduced bison.

Amid Montana’s recent heat wave health officials warned of its danger and the importance of staying cool. But now that temperatures are dropping, the impacts of the heat are unclear.

New research indicates the uptick in requests for sterilization following the Dobbs decision on abortion was not a temporary trend. Nationally, numbers of tubal ligations and vasectomies are up.

The Montana Department of Justice is blocking access to what it calls privileged documents showing its communication with a Canadian mining company. An environmental group is now suing to access the information.