Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services

As hospitals overflow in Idaho, COVID-positive patients there looking for care in Montana won’t find many empty rooms. Montana is dealing with its own needs for staffing and bed capacity.

Montana’s health department is finalizing a proposal to increase how often it audits people enrolled in the state’s coverage program for low-income adults. Health care providers and advocacy groups say some will unnecessarily lose their health coverage.

The demand to raise poultry like chickens and ducks rose during the pandemic — and so did salmonella cases nationally and statewide.

A therapeutic youth home in Sheridan, Wyoming is closing its doors this spring after multiple states have dropped contracts with its parent company nationwide due to reports of violence, abuse and a death at another facility. When Normative Services Inc. Academy closes in March, nearly 50 kids from Montana will need to be transferred elsewhere.

COVID-19 vaccination efforts in counties across the state are shifting from health care workers to community members. Limited supply has been a problem,...

State health officials are dropping lawsuits against five Flathead County businesses. Under former Gov. Steve Bullock the state alleged the bars,...

Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte today announced his pick for state health department director.

Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Wednesday that 11 counties will be ready to move into Phase 1B of Montana’s vaccination plan next week. This phase...

Montana lawmakers have set the first rough outline for state health department spending at about a billion dollars less than the agency’s current budget...

Montana on Wednesday released an updated COVID-19 vaccine plan that incorporates new federal guidance on how shots will be distributed to critical groups into next summer.