Weekly News Roundup

Week ending September 22, 2024

USDA Launches Assistance Network to Support Financially Distressed Farmers and Ranchers

Weekly Reported Covid Cases in Montana Up 26.8%

Presidential Debate: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

Busse Calls Gianforte's Bluff; Governor Folds

Gianforte Agrees to October 16 Debate Hosted by ABC-Fox After Refusing Three Earlier Ones

Montana Lawmakers Hear Conflicting Arguments on Renewing Expanded Medicaid Program

How Fire Remakes Montana’s Landscapes

Montana DPHHS Defends New Child Care Model, but Public and Lawmakers Have Questions

Forecasts Show Warm, Dry Montana Summer Could Transition to Cold and Snowier Winter

Biden Administration Seeks to Remove Gray Wolf Protections in Lower 48

Carbon County First Responder Blotter

FWP Seeks Responses to a River Recreation Survey

Montana Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments About ‘Executive Privilege’ in O’Neill v. Gianforte

NorthWestern Says Colstrip Pollution Control Upgrade Could Cost Company Hundreds of Millions

Decades of National Suicide Prevention Policies Haven’t Slowed the Deaths