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Montana Tourists Face Highest Rental Car Rates In The Nation
We all know living in Montana isn’t cheap—especially if you’re a local in the Bozeman area. But if you think we’ve got it bad, try visiting during peak season. Tourists are getting absolutely slammed with some of the highest rental car prices in...

FINALLY—Our Children Are No Longer Government Property
Final Word: Teachers versus parents is not the problem; it is moral decay versus righteousness. We have our kids back, and no one will take them away from us again! A new era for parental rights has just been launched, and the government is...

Advice for Left-Lane Drivers in Montana
If you've ever been cruising down I-90, you've probably seen it or have been stuck behind it. A lone vehicle camped out in the left lane, keeping pace with the person in the other lane, caused a line of traffic to back up for miles behind it....

Feds vow to dump roadless restrictions on NW Montana forestland
The federal government pledged to peel back protections on more than 1.1 million acres of forestland in Northwest Montana, opening vast swaths of the region to potential logging projects. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins vowed on June 23 to...

Federal education funding freeze puts pressure on Montana after school programs
BOZEMAN — A sudden freeze in federal education funding could impact after-school care for thousands of Montana families, including those relying on programs like kidsLINK, operated by Greater Gallatin United Way. The federal government announced a...

City Approves SID Resolution and Mail Ballot Election
(Havre) – The Havre City Council had fourteen items on their agenda to discuss at their regular monthly meeting. The agenda item that generated the most discussion was a resolution by the city declaring their intent for a special improvement...

886 Fires Reported In Montana In 2025 So Far
More than a dozen fires reported in Montana last week Fire season has begun to kick up in Montana with 886 fires this year including 18 during the last week. Monday there had been 14 new fires in the previous 24 hours. Nearly all incidents this...

Pastor’s murder exposes violent rise of Christian Zionism in American society, politics
By Maryam Qarehgozlou Adam Sheafe, an American Zionist who confessed to the gruesome crucifixion of an elderly pastor in Arizona and a foiled plan to kill 13 other Christian priests in ten states across the US, had admitted that his motive was “to...

"Makes me laugh seeing a villain act like a victim": Malik Beasley’s ex-wife Montana Yao takes thinly-veiled shot at him amid gambling investigation
Malik Beasley’s ex-wife, Montana Yao, took a thinly veiled shot at the NBA guard amid his legal troubles. It was reported in June that the FBI had launched a wire fraud investigation of Beasley related to gambling and prop bets. Since reports...

Where to live tax-free in 2025: Best states for retired US military personnel
Military retirees have one less thing to worry about in many parts of the US state income tax. A growing number of states are choosing to exempt military retirement pay from taxation entirely, giving veterans a financial incentive to settle there...

Sens. Warren, Sheehy team up on bipartisan military bill backed by Trump admin.
Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate, is teaming up with Montana Republican Tim Sheehy, one of the upper chamber's most conservative, to advance a new Pentagon policy that has earned support...

Montana reopens Housing Choice Voucher wait-list
HELENA — The waitlist for Housing Choice Vouchers, commonly known as Section 8 vouchers, is now reopen after closing in August of 2024. According to the Montana Department of Commerce, the voucher program "provides rental subsidies for very...

Montana reopens Housing Choice Voucher waitlist
HELENA — The waitlist for Housing Choice Vouchers, commonly known as Section 8 vouchers, is now reopen after closing in August of 2024. According to the Montana Department of Commerce, the voucher program "provides rental subsidies for very...

Future Of National Park Fees For International Visitors
We still don't know how much it will cost international travelers to visit National Parks like Glacier and Yellowstone in the years to come. But we do know it has the potential to raise many millions of dollars at a time when the Trump...

Montana Food Bank Network warns of SNAP cuts impact
MONTANA - Concerns are rising in Montana as the Montana Food Bank Network reacts to President Donald Trump's recently signed bill, which includes significant cuts to government food assistance programs like SNAP. Signed on July 4, the bill,...

Montana Supreme Court declares 2021 abortion restrictions unconstitutional | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
MONTANA Abortion restrictions declared unconstitutional HELENA — Montana's Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional several laws restricting abortion access, including a ban beyond 20 weeks of gestation. The...

DIY and analog: How North Pole Records keeps music physical—and political
BILLINGS — In an era where songs dissolve into streaming algorithms and playlists drift in the cloud, a Montana label is doing something radically different: pressing music to tape, CD and vinyl, by hand and on purpose. Will Ryerson, who performs...

Voters challenge Montana’s new constitutional right to an abortion
Montana’s newest constitutional right took effect this month — the right to terminate a pregnancy. A challenge to its legality is trying to find footing. Nearly 60% of voters approved the amendment last November to enshrine abortion access in the...

2025 Montana Folk Festival to feature more shade, new indoor stage
BUTTE, Mont. — The countdown is on to the annual Montana Folk Festival, and preparations are well underway in Uptown Butte. Dozens of workers are getting the six stages, beer gardens, and other essentials put together with the festival slated to...

Trump administration weighs new coal sales from public lands in Montana, Wyoming
DENVER — Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump's push to expand U.S. fossil fuel production. The Interior Department...