MIN Midweek News Roundup

April 23, 2025

“We are following a storm system that is currently forecast to produce heavy rain Sunday through Monday. While there is a great deal of uncertainty in storm evolution, impacts may include rain on foothills snow, rain on burn scars including the Robertson Draw Fire, and stream rises.”~Billings Office of the National Weather Service

Heavy Rain with Possible Flooding Concerns Sunday and Monday

Wheat harvest (© Michael Gäbler / Wikimedia Commons)

Montana Farmers Union Seeks to Join Lawsuit Against Tariffs on Canada

Montana House District 55 Legislative Update

Carbon County First Responder Blotter

Senator Steve Daines stands to the right of President Donald Trump as he signs Daines’ Great American Outdoors Act in 2020 (The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

President Trump Offers ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ of Daines

Montana Legislature Passes $100 Million Bill to Raise Starting Teacher Pay

Trump signs executive order to expedite permitting of Lincoln County mine

State Supreme Court Sides with Media Outlets in Public Meetings Lawsuit

Compromise Legislation Cutting Income Taxes Headed to Governor’s Desk

Hospitals’ Lobbying Frustrates Montana Lawmakers Who Sought to Boost Oversight

Senate Stands by Decision to Cut Some Arts Groups’ Funding, Give More to Others

Distracted Driver Legislation in Memory of Anaconda Woman Sputters in House

‘Personhood’ for Embryos Fails, Other Abortion Bills Head to Governor’s Desk

Two Proposals for Marijuana Tax Revenue Advance in Wake of Senate Bill 307 Failure

Montana Reaches Six Months of Unemployment Below 3%

Carlos Trujillo, a partner at Trujillo Acosta Law, poses for a photo outside his office in South Jordan on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Trujillo received an email from the Department of Homeland Security telling him to leave the country despite being a naturalized citizen. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

American Citizens Among Those Directed by DHS to Self-Deport

U.S. Education Department to Restart Defaulted Student Loan Collections

U.S. Senate Dems Request Report on Cuts to Social Security Administration

Transgender Troops Ban, Nationwide Freeze Argued in U.S. Appeals Court

Trump Backs Hegseth After Second Group Chat Revelation