Montana Free Press

07/14/2025

Meet ‘guachummus,’ a west-meets-east invention ideal as an appetizer or side.

07/11/2025

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen moved to intervene in the Lighthiser v. Trump lawsuit challenging a trio of energy-related executive orders.

Montana’s attorney general is corralling a 19-state coalition of Republican states seeking to back Trump’s energy agenda.

07/11/2025

Montana’s senators move to fill judge position opened under Biden.

07/11/2025

The U.S. Forest Service recently issued a formal permit to Eric Jacobson to operate a beloved lodge in the Swan Valley.

07/11/2025

In a federal district court hearing, attorneys for Christoper Martinez Marvan petitioned for his release, while lawyers representing the government argued his detainment was legal.

07/10/2025

Providers say House Bill 924 should make a difference for those who face financial and technical difficulties in trying to meet the growing needs of families in their communities.

07/10/2025

Newly released law enforcement footage shows the arrest of Christopher Martinez Marvan, a Helena man and Mexican national, after a stop by Helena Police Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in early July.

“He’s being kidnapped right now,” one Helena Police Department officer said during the July 1 traffic stop.

07/09/2025

Divided commission schedules formal discussion, potential vote for next week.

07/08/2025

Nine Republican lawmakers are caught up in a months-long festering feud for breaking with the Freedom Caucus at the start of the 2025 Legislature. Freedom Caucus members, who make up a majority of the Republican Senate caucus, persuaded MTGOP delegates to disenfranchise the senators.

Nine Republican lawmakers are caught up in a months-long festering feud for breaking with the Freedom Caucus at the start of the 2025 Legislature.

07/08/2025

The Montana Public Service Commission on July 1, 2025, agreed to authorize the partial electricity rate structure NorthWestern Energy reached with the Montana Consumer Counsel and a handful of the utility’s largest customers.

NorthWestern Energy, Montana utility board dial back electricity rate hike

07/07/2025

The University of Montana is changing course and will opt-in this year to the NCAA’s House settlement. The recent settlement means athletic programs across the country are free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the history of college athletics. Montana was originally planning to opt-in during the 2026-27 academic year. The school explained that it switched after rosters were grandfathered into the final approved settlement so that roster cuts weren’t necessary.

The school explained that it switched after rosters were grandfathered into the final approved settlement so that roster cuts weren’t necessary.

07/07/2025

The Interior Department proposal comes after the Biden administration, citing climate change, tried to end sales of the fuel from the nation's most productive coal fields — the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.