Tranel tightens race in western Montana in her bid to unseat Zinke
Sep 24, 2024 · Darrell Ehrlick is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Montanan, after leading his native state’s largest paper, The Billings Gazette. He is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and teacher, whose career has taken him to North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, …
Judge hears arguments over effort to block Montana rule barring …
Nov 14, 2024 · A district court judge in Helena heard arguments Thursday afternoon from attorneys seeking a preliminary injunction on behalf of two transgender Montanans who argue that a rule from the state public health department preventing them from changing their government documents to denote their gender instead of their birth sex is unconstitutional.. ACLU of Montana attorney Alex Rate told Lewis and ...
Flathead Warming Center argues it should be operating, isn't ...
Oct 25, 2024 · How can the Flathead Warming Shelter even know if it is supposed to be open? That was one question federal Judge Dana Christensen asked to a lawyer representing the City of Kalispell in a hearing Friday in U.S. District Court of Montana in Missoula over whether the shelter can continue to operate this winter.
Montana settles with conservation groups that sued to shorten …
Nov 21, 2024 · Two conservation groups agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission this week after it adopted wolf and coyote trapping season regulations they said will protect threatened grizzly bears in Montana.. The groups reached a settlement with the state of Montana on Thursday days before the case was set to go to trial.
Montana lawmakers told property taxes could rise again if …
Nov 18, 2024 · Montana lawmakers will head into the 2025 legislative session in a similar position they were in two years ago and will have to decide whether, and how, to reduce property tax assessment rates to keep property taxes from rising for many Montana homeowners – something they failed to do during the 2023 session.
Daines calls for scrutiny of new facial recognition technology at …
Nov 22, 2024 · New facial recognition technology recently unrolled at five Montana airports needs more vetting to ensure privacy for passengers, efficacy in decreasing wait times, and benefits in increasing security, said a letter this week signed by Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines. The letter, directed to the ...
Constitutional Initiative 126 - Daily Montanan
Montanans will have three constitutional initiatives before them in 2024. Each, if passed, would amend the Montana Constitution. Constitutional Initiatives 126 and 127 are tied closely together, but because of the Montana Constitutional requirement that a constitutional proposal can only contain one subject, both 126 and 127 were separated to ensure compliance with the law. […]
Dillon man sentenced to 2 years in prison for role in Jan. 6 U.S ...
A Dillon man was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for his role in breaching the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, following his conviction on one felony and four misdemeanor counts earlier this year.. Henry Phillip “Hank” Muntzer, 55, will have to serve a year of supervised release and pay $2,000 in restitution in addition to …
Counties dismissing charges, unable to prosecute crimes because …
Nov 25, 2024 · At a meeting on Monday, Lake County Attorney James Lapotka told a group of lawmakers, peace officers and judges about two recent cases his office handled that protected Montanans’ Constitutional rights — but had tragic results. Lake County released a person from jail who later went to a relative ...
Knudsen takes the stand on first day of Commission on Practice ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen took the stand Wednesday to explain to the Commission on Practice that the inflammatory language he used in documents during a 2021 court spat between the Legislature and Supreme Court was only used because that was the position his client, the Legislature, was taking during the time that he described as a “constitutional emergency.”