Follow Montana Free Press’ live coverage of the June 2 Montana primary election featuring updates, analysis, results and commentary from reporters Eric Dietrich and Mara Silvers, contributing writer Alex Sakariassen, and MTFP Editor-in-Chief John S. Adams.


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Eric Dietrich

Data Reporter

Providing election results, real-time data analysis, and graphics.

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Mara Silvers

Reporter

Covering the hotly contested gubernatorial and attorney general races.

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John S. Adams

Editor-in-Chief

Monitoring the U.S. Senate primaries and providing insight and analysis on key down-ballot races.

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Alex Sakariassen

Contributor

Tracking the U.S. House races and key legislative contests.


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NEWS

BLM seeking public comment on conservation priorities

Through June 20, the Bureau of Land Management is accepting comments on a proposal that the agency put conservation priorities — e.g., ecological health and the “resilience of renewable resources” — on equal footing with long-established agency objectives such as livestock grazing and oil, gas and coal leasing.



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Indian Caucus priorities signed into law

Gianforte signed both the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act and a bill revising Indian Education For All laws earlier this week. The first bill secures Indigenous family protections in state law, and the second revises how Native history is taught in schools.

CEO of Western Montana Mental Health steps down

A representative of Western Montana Mental Health Center said this week that the Missoula-headquartered organization decided not to renew Levi Anderson’s contract after his five years of serving as CEO. Long the backbone of community behavioral health services across western Montana, Western has faced financial headwinds for years.

Gov. Gianforte signs MEPA bill into law

Sen. Mark Noland, a Republican businessman from Bigfork, said he sponsored the measure after seeing his friends’ livelihoods impacted by timber sales that had been halted under the Montana Environmental Policy Act.

Abortion providers, state attorneys spar over new restrictions

A Helena district court judge on Tuesday barred the state from enforcing five new abortion restrictions while litigation over their constitutionality continues. The order from the bench came at the end of a three-and-a-half-hour court proceeding featuring Montana abortion providers, medical witnesses and state agency representatives.

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