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The Montana health department is sending nearly $3 million to local detention centers for addiction and recovery treatment. The grants are a part of the state’s new funding program to address behavioral health services.
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Proposals focus on ways to boost home construction in an effort to ease Montana’s housing crunch.
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The governor's task force has developed a list of 18 recommendations meant to boost affordable housing in Montana.
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How Republicans in Montana hijacked public health and brought a hospital to the brink
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Montana’s highest ranking Republican officials gathered Friday to talk about the fentanyl crisis in the state and their plans to address it. Their focus is on boosting law enforcement and pushing to restrict immigration.
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Underground coal seams can burn unnoticed for years. They can also spark raging wildfires. Funding to extinguish them is limited, but a mapping effort is underway to plot the smoldering coordinates.
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Gov. Greg Gianforte said in a news release he and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality worked with the Montana League of Cities and Towns on a simpler construction permitting process. They created a template contract to have city governments review public water supply plans for building projects.
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte says his administration has surpassed a major goal for economic growth during his first year in office: adding 10,000 jobs that pay $50,000 a year. At the same time, rising inflation is cutting into Montanans' earnings.
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According to data from the state labor department, in 2021 Montana added nearly 13,000 new jobs that pay above the state’s median wage. That exceeded the governor’s goal to add a net of 10,000 new jobs that pay more than $50,000.
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The Biden administration is urging Montana’s governor to encourage more residents to sign up for a federal program offering assistance for broadband service.