2025年1月3日 · Aldo Leopold, a visionary conservationist, thought of reversing course as early as 1944. “Why, in the necessary process of extirpating wolves from livestock ranges of Wyoming and Montana, were not some of the uninjured animals used to restock Yellowstone?” the icon of the environmental movement wrote in the Journal of Forestry.

About the 2025 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker. This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process.

2025年1月8日 · Slew of bills offering tax benefits and employment protection to dwindling number of volunteer firefighters en route to Senate In response to a growing demand and decreasing supply of volunteer firefighters, strategies include employment protection for volunteers who miss time at work, in addition to legislation centered around tax benefits.

Lawmakers ponder bills aimed at narrowing ag property tax loopholes. A pair of bills aimed at closing loopholes that may make it too easy for Montana property owners to qualify for hefty property tax benefits intended for farms and ranches got their initial hearings before the Montana Legislature this week, drawing hours of commentary from supporters and opponents.

2024年12月31日 · A former nurse at St. Peter’s Health in Helena has been arrested amid allegations that he sexually assaulted a patient. Aaron Gams is accused of sexually assaulting the patient in 2023 while she was under his care in the hospital’s intensive-care unit, according to documents from the state Department of Labor and Industry.

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2025年1月27日 · Constitutional Initiative 126. The first of two proposed amendments to the state Constitution advanced by Montanans for Election Reform. It would replace Montana’s current party-based June primary system, where voters receive multiple party-specific ballots, with a single primary ballot listing all candidates regardless of party.

2024年12月7日 · Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. An MTFP co-publication with ProPublica.

The Montana Fire Report: Sept. 6 – 13. Widespread rainfall across Montana Wednesday and Thursday could mean an early end for the 2024 fire season.

2025年1月27日 · Busse, 54 as of Election Day, spent 25 years working as a salesman for the firearm company Kimber. He left his position as vice president of sales in 2020 and published a memoir, “Gunfight,” criticizing radicalization in the firearms industry the following year.