Steve Daines

The Biden administration announced Monday the land border with Canada will remain restricted to all nonessential travel through Oct. 21. That’s in contrast with Canada’s side of the border, which since Aug. 9 has been open for U.S. citizens who are fully vaccinated and have tested negative for the coronavirus.

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

As the last United States’ military planes departed Afghanistan Monday, a group of Montana veterans met with Sen. Steve Daines to discuss the end of the nation’s longest war. They all encouraged Montanans to welcome Afghan ally refugees who now, or will soon, call Montana home.

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.

Montana’s U.S Senators split their votes on the $1 trillion infrastructure deal that cleared the chamber Tuesday. Jon Tester and Steve Daines have different takes on how the measure will be funded.

A trillion-dollar infrastructure package backed by Montana’s senior senator took a step forward Thursday. The deal has bipartisan support but still faces hurdles. After a procedural vote, the infrastructure deal is headed to the Senate floor for debate.

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Retired Senator Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington D.C., has died. He was 77.

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.

The United States government is extending the closure of the Canadian border for nonessential travel until August twenty-first.

The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will vote on the controversial nomination of Montanan Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the US Bureau of Land Management, the management agency for 245 million acres of federal land out West.