Weekly News Roundup

For week ending December 22, 2024

Photo from Montana’s hidden crisis: Nitrates in Rock Creek by David Arthun and George Zaimes

Montana’s hidden crisis: Nitrates in Rock Creek

Fantasy Football League Becomes Life and Death in Red Lodge

Montana Awarded $3.5 Million Federal Grant to Help Laid Off Sibanye-Stillwater Mine Workers

How Are States Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? We Built a Database of Answers

States Go After ‘Claim Sharks’ That Charge Vets for Help with Disability Claims

Judge Denies Retired Montana Highway Patrol Chief’s Motion to Find AG in Contempt

Bill to Clean Up Abandoned Mines Signed into Law

Supreme Court Deals Blow to Bozeman’s Single-Use Plastics Initiative Approved in November

Book Review: McIntyre’s Passion for Wolves and Yellowstone Shines Through in New Book

New Product Safety Recalls

Employers Press Congress To Cement Health Price Transparency Before Trump’s Return

How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

Legislative Auditors Recommend Changes at Office of Political Practice

Rural Montana’s China Tech Challenge

Medicaid Expansion May Be Montana’s Cheapest ‘Economic Development’ Program, Economist Says

Medicare’s New Negotiated Drug Prices are Lower, But Still Much Higher Than What Other Nations Pay

USDA Announces $300 Million in Additional Regional Agricultural Promotion Program Grants to Diversify U.S. Agricultural Export Markets

‘Not Knowing Where To Go’: Montana’s Sparse Landscape For Alcohol Detox

Convicted Felon D’Ambrosio Sentenced to Prison for Montana Historical Society Thefts

Montana Supreme Court Sides With Youth Plaintiffs In Landmark Climate Lawsuit

Native American Patients are Sent to Collections for Debts the Government Owes

Gianforte Hosts Energy Roundtable to Discuss ‘Unleashing American Energy’

NorthWestern Energy Announces Agreement With Data Center Developer in Montana

Committee Discusses Staffing, Aerial Imagery as Solutions for State Tax Department’s Billion-Dollar Appraisal Backlog

Judge Blocks Policies Keeping Transgender Montanans From Changing Sex Designations

Matt Rosendale’s Anti Farewell

Montana Rated ‘Middle of the Pack’ in New Western State Conservation Scorecard