House Republicans advanced a six-bill package Wednesday, Feb. 1, that would put more than $1 billion of the state’s historic budget surplus into rebate checks and other spending, pushing the measures through debate and initial floor votes. In their current forms, the bills would authorize per-taxpayer rebates of up to $1,250 on 2021 state income taxes and up to $1,000 on 2022 and 2023 property

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is reminding Montanans to be aware of criminals trying to scam them as the Department of Justice’s Office fielded 974 scam complaints and saved Montanans from losing more than nearly $900,000 in 2022. In 2022, OCP recovered $712,884 for Montanans who were victimized by scammers and prevented consumers who called inquiring about whether they were being

Ivan Doig and Dolly Smith Cusker Akers are this year’s inductees into the Gallery of Outstanding Montanans. MTHS director Molly Kruckenberg and special guest Gov. Greg Gianforte will recognize the achievements of these two exceptional Montanans with a ceremony at noon March 1 in the capitol rotunda in Helena. The public is encouraged to attend. The gallery itself is in the west wing of the capitol.

The Montana Legislature is considering the program which would appropriate over $8.5 million across the State of Montana for historic preservation. A proposed recipient, the Fort Peck Fine Arts Council would use the grant money for the Fort Peck Summer Theatre. According to a press release from the organization, the grant money would be used to update heating, cooling and ventilation to be

The two Billings photojournalists who captured the Chinese surveillance balloon told their story Monday, Feb. 6, to a national television outlet and are talking with a statewide radio show as well. Chase Doak, who provided his photo of the balloon last week to the Daily Montanan, told Fox News he thought the ground stop Wednesday, Feb. 1, at the Billings airport was “kind of suspicious.”

When the state released the current unemployment rates in Montana last week, Roosevelt County ranked 45th out of Montana’s 56 counties with an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent. Counties tying for the lowest unemployment rate at 1.5 percent were Sheridan, McCone, Fallon and Carter. Daniels placed sixth at 1.7 percent and Dawson was eighth at 1.8 percent. The state’s overall unemployment