Jauron Cox of Redford, Mich., changed his plea to guilty for two drug related charges in Roosevelt County District Court on Wednesday, July 15. Cox originally made not guilty pleas for the felony charges of criminal possession with intent to distribute meth and criminal possession with intent do distribute fentanyl. On Wednesday, he changed his plea to guilty for the felony charges of criminal

Roosevelt County is seeing cannabis sales going over $700,000 for a month during recent reports from the Montana Department of Revenue. For the month of June, Roosevelt County had $708,657 in adult use sales and $759,592 in total sales. The total sales figures translates to $25,319 being spent daily on cannabis in the county. Those figures are consistent for sales during May in the county

The Federal Trade Commission on July 8 secured a settlement and established a Farmer’s Right to Repair following an anti-trust lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the state attorneys general of Illinois, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin against John Deere & Co., alleging the company’s repair restrictions violate competition laws. Montana Farmers Union and National

The Montana Constitution does not allow for the state to reconvene the commission to draw new legislative district between cycles, according to an analysis by the Legislative Legal Services Office. In a memo provided to the State Administration and Veterans Affairs Interim Committee last week, legal analysts with the state said the constitution lays out how the redistricting commission is selected

The Montana Department of Corrections intends to relocate women currently incarcerated at Boulder’s Riverside prison, which holds about 50 of the state’s 370 female prisoners, to Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City, according to agency spokesperson Carolynn Stocker. A press release shared by Stocker Thursday, July 9, announced that the agency planned “to explore options for the

A Wolf Point woman who was dealing meth out of a Billings motel room was sentenced Tuesday, July 14, to four years and eight months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Mark Steger Smith said. Destinee Fate Rowe, 27, pleaded guilty in January 2026 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge William

The Montana Secretary of State announced Wednesday, July 15, that the state election team confirmed three independent candidates for political office met the signature requirements to appear on the November ballot. Seth Bodnar, the former president of the University of Montana who is running in a three-way race for the U.S. Senate, submitted more than twice the number of signatures required