The Montana Board of Public Education plans to keep existing ratios between students and librarians, school counselors and superintendents — contrary to the Office of Public Instruction’s recommendation to eliminate the minimum requirements. The board also plans to retain ratios between students and principals, which OPI had recommended changing. However, at a meeting last week about

A sense of deja vu is overtaking the U.S. railroad industry as labor leaders and major railroad representatives try to figure out how to avoid a strike that could bring freight and passenger trains to a halt in the middle of the busy holiday shipping season. It’s a scenario eerily similar to one that played out just over two months ago, when White House officials helped broker an 11th-hour

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court Tuesday, Nov. 22, challenging the rulings of a district court judge who overturned four election administration laws passed by the 2021 Legislature. The notice marks the continuation of a legal battle that began in April 2021, just a day after Gov. Greg Gianforte signed two of the bills into law. Three