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Montana’s lone voice in the U.S. House did not join the majority this week in voting to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress.
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As demand for federally subsidized health care significantly rises in Montana for the first time in several years, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to strike down the law that enabled expanded coverage. Health insurance experts liken a complete overturn of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to a “perfect storm” that would cause “complete chaos.”
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Starting this week, Amtrak reduced daily passenger rail service along Montana’s Hi-Line to three days a week, pointing to drastic drops in ridership and revenue during the COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger rail advocates say this change will further diminish limited transportation options in frontier communities and justify more permanent cuts to service.
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More than 20 states either don’t release or have incomplete data on the rapid antigen tests now considered key to containing the coronavirus, which has sickened more than 6 million Americans. The lapses leave officials and the public in the dark about the true scope of the pandemic as untold numbers of cases go uncounted.
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New Mexico Health Connections’ decision to close at year’s end will leave just three of the 23 nonprofit health insurance co ops that sprung from the Affordable Care Act.
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In the 2014 elections, Republicans rode a wave of anti Affordable Care Act sentiment to pick up nine Senate seats, the largest gain for either party since 1980. Newly elected Republicans such as Cory Gardner in Colorado and Steve Daines in Montana had hammered their Democratic opponents over the health care law during the campaign and promised to repeal it.
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A group of bipartisan state lawmakers released a letter Tuesday urging members of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee to pass the Confederated...
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The Trump Administration is redirecting funds originally set aside for the National Guard towards constructing a wall between the United States and…
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The Trump administration is building up the biggest backlog in years of unfunded Superfund projects.The Environmental Protection Agency released figures…
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President Donald Trump formed a task force to address missing and murdered indigenous people last month. At the signing of his executive order to…