In Eastern district U.S. House race, it’s Rosendale versus the idealists
State health department blocks birth certificate changes for transgender people
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Arntzen draws backlash over counseling proposal
Billboard project in Billings celebrates Crow culture and people
Who holds the keys to Montana’s Western congressional seat?
Could rehabbing dams in the Rattlesnake Wilderness help native trout struggling with climate change?
When the city of Missoula acquired the Mountain Water Company, it took on the responsibility of repairing and maintaining a series of high-elevation dams in the Rattlesnake Wilderness. Now, a century after their construction, those dams need removal or rehabilitation. Fixing them could provide benefits for the ‘Place of the Small Bull Trout.’
Missoula County voters asked to increase funding for elderly services
Missoula Aging Services’ budget hasn’t kept up with the needs of the county’s aging population, an issue exasperated by the pandemic. Its CEO says an additional tax would help ease that burden.
How Montana ski areas are adapting to the climate crisis
As an ominous report predicts less snow in the northern Rocky Mountains’ future, Montana ski areas are taking action to protect their most important resource.
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Tackling Montana’s EMS shortage, from the supply side
In December 2021, Missoula College graduated the first cohort from its new paramedic program. Now the program is exploring more ways to educate the next generation of first responders and help Montana tackle its ongoing EMS shortage — and it’s not alone.
Population booms overwhelm schools in the West: ‘Someone’s gonna get left behind’
In Bozeman and other small cities like it across the West, the population is exploding faster than schools can keep up.
Montana Supreme Court says no to Election Day voter registration
The Montana Supreme Court put another twist Tuesday in the ongoing legal battle over new election administration laws, overturning a district court injunction and once again terminating Election Day voter registration.
BNSF changes controversial attendance policy
Even with the changes, labor officials remain unimpressed and said BNSF Railway’s new policies could lead to unsafe working conditions on the railroad.
Helena Habitat for Humanity presses Gianforte on housing solutions
Citing MTFP reporting on tension between Gov. Greg Gianforte’s “Come Home Montana” campaign and Montana’s housing crunch, Helena Area Habitat for Humanity has taken out a newspaper ad advocating affordability fixes.
Following tour, lawmakers press Meier on solutions for troubled state hospital
State lawmakers on Friday reiterated their calls for urgent reforms at Montana’s adult psychiatric hospital in Warm Springs, which has long struggled with insufficient staffing and resources — problems that have resulted in patient falls, deaths and loss of federal funding within the last year.
Montana reverses course on federal food assistance
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services announced that it is seeking another round of pandemic-era food assistance funding from the federal government, reversing a decision the agency made earlier this spring to halt participation in the program, DPHHS Director Adam Meier told state lawmakers in Helena Friday.
Board of Education approves new teacher licensing rules
For nearly a year, public education stakeholders have been discussing regulatory changes to ease teacher licensing in Montana. The Board of Public Education took one of its final steps toward approving those revisions Thursday after settling more than 130 public comments.
Census undercount threatens federal food and health programs on reservations
The 2020 census missed nearly 1 of every 17 Native Americans who live on reservations, an undercount that could very well lead to insufficient federal funding for essential health, nutrition, and social programs in remote communities with high poverty rates and scarce access to services.
EPA nixes Montana’s new water quality standards
In a May 10 letter to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the EPA asserted that a measure the Montana Legislature passed in 2021 runs afoul of the Clean Water Act. The EPA said it’s concerned that the state’s repeal of numeric standards for nitrogen and phosphorus codified in Senate Bill 358 has led to…
MTFP’s 2022 election guide
MTFP’s reporters have spent weeks compiling information on the Montana candidates running for Congress, the Montana Supreme Court and other offices this year.
Judge strikes pre-approval statute that bestowed ‘exclusive and lucrative financial benefit only on NorthWestern’
A Missoula judge struck down a law that granted NorthWestern Energy reimbursement for new energy-generating assets from customers. In a May 6 opinion, District Court Judge Jason Marks deemed the pre-approval statute passed by the Montana Legislature in 2003 unconstitutional because it applies only to NorthWestern.
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