Lee Enterprises, which owns four of the state’s major daily newspapers, cut at least 15 newsroom positions at its papers across Montana during the past week — a move employees said has shrunk already skeleton staffs and battered journalists’ morale. “Morale was already low, but it’s going to get lower,” said Victor Flores, Lee’s sportswriter covering Montana State University

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, including a provision from U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (MT-02), the Restore Onshore Energy Production Act. This provision would require the Biden Administration immediately resume onshore oil and gas lease sales in compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act. “The Biden Administration’s attack on domestic energy

The Montana House on Thursday, April 13, advanced a bill that aims to ban TikTok in Montana, narrowly rejecting an amendment from Rep. Katie Sullivan that sought to change the bill so it applied to any social media company selling or transferring user data to a foreign adversary. “We can make this count in Montana by coming up with a piece of policy that gets everybody to respect the privacy

In celebration of National Public Health Week, the Department of Public Health and Human Services has announced that its Public Health and Safety Division has been recognized as a Healthy People 2030 Champion from the federal Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Healthy People 2030 is the fifth iteration of the Healthy People initiative, which sets 10-year data-driven objectives