Joe Biden

Montana is slated to welcome 75 Afghan refugees, and reactions from the state’s elected officials are varying about the news.

Montana’s large business leaders are grappling with President Joe Biden’s nationwide vaccine mandate. There are questions about logistics and whether some workers may walk off the job in protest.

Attorney General Knudsen promised Friday to sue the federal government as soon as the vaccine mandate becomes official, calling the rule 'tyrannical.'

Canadians seeking to vacation or travel for business are still not allowed to cross the border into the US. Earlier Friday the Department of Homeland Security extended it’s restrictions on non-essential travel at least to September 21.

The White House has announced their pick for the director of the National Park service.

The legal push and pull between the Biden Administration and oil industry stakeholders continues after a district court judge ordered the administration to remove a pause on new oil and gas lease sales on public lands.

Health care facilities in rural areas, including Montana and Wyoming, are more often the target of cyberattacks than in the past. YPR news’ Jess Sheldahl spoke with Ryan Levi, producer for the national health policy podcast Tradeoffs, about ransomware attacks aimed at the healthcare industry.

Federal health officials will likely reject Montana’s request to include work requirements for beneficiaries of its Medicaid expansion program, which insures 100,000 low-income Montana adults, state officials said.

Gov. Greg Gianforte joined six other western governors Friday in a meeting with President Joe Biden to talk about wildfires. Thousands of acres are burning across the state of Montana amid a severe drought and high temperatures.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this morning deadlocked Thursday on Montanan Tracy Stone-Manning’s nomination to lead the US Bureau of Land Management.