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Conservation group sues over ESA protections for pygmy rabbit

By Micah Drew - May 15, 2026

President Donald Trump's budget request, released on May 2, 2025, proposes slashing $21 billion in unspent funds from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law for renewable energy, electric vehicle charging infrastructure and other efforts to cut climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions.  Shown are solar panels and wind turbines. (Photo by Marga Buschbell-Steeger/Getty Images)

Labor, conservation groups use merger to advance energy, union goals

By Keila Szpaller - May 14, 2026

Conservation organizations file lawsuit to determine legality of corner crossing in Montana

By Micah Drew - May 14, 2026

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DPHHS hosts disability employment summit

BY Jordan Hansen - May 15, 2026

Trump elections order would create chaotic ‘nightmare,’ Democrats and allies tell court

BY Ashley Murray and Jonathan Shorman - May 15, 2026

US House rejects constraint on Trump action in Iran, one day after Senate

BY Ariana Figueroa - May 14, 2026

US House members scrutinize ‘big, beautiful’ law’s loan limits for nursing degrees

BY Shauneen Miranda - May 14, 2026

Senate votes to freeze members’ pay during future shutdowns

BY Jennifer Shutt - May 14, 2026

US Senate GOP not sold on $1B Secret Service ask

BY Jennifer Shutt and Ariana Figueroa - May 14, 2026

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Commentary

Montana’s congressional delegation – their silence is deafening

BY George Ochenski - May 15, 2026

Cash bail undermines the presumption of innocence

BY Doug James - May 14, 2026

The Montana Chamber of Commerce picked dark money over Montanans

BY Doug James - May 12, 2026

Businesses to lawmakers: Stop harming our public lands and our bottom lines

BY Guest Commentary - May 9, 2026

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Big Sky Roundup

Half a million absentee ballots sent to Montana voters for primary election

BY Micah Drew - May 11, 2026

Media mogul, Montana landowner Ted Turner dies at 87

BY Micah Drew - May 6, 2026

Bear injures hikers in Yellowstone National Park

BY Micah Drew - May 5, 2026

Montana Gov. Gianforte appoints Rebecca Swandal to Sixth Judicial District Court

BY Daily Montanan Staff - May 5, 2026

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Data centers part of rationale to investors for power merger, record shows

BY Keila Szpaller - May 13, 2026

Documents, details released about 2025 mass shooting in Anaconda

BY Jordan Hansen - May 13, 2026

Foreign visitors shell out more for Yellowstone, Grand Teton visits

BY Rebecca Huntington, Victoria O'Brien and Christina MacIntosh - May 13, 2026

The Davis Global Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, which holds the National Quarantine Unit, is seen on May 11, 2026 in Omaha, Nebraska. Sixteen U.S. passengers on the MV Hondius, which had three passengers die from Hantavirus last month and eight more reported cases, were brought to the National Quarantine Unit at the Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center to be isolated and monitored. (Photo by Dylan Widger/Getty Images)

Risk low of hantavirus spread, CDC officials say

BY Jennifer Shutt - May 13, 2026

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