Every day, newly appointed District Court Judge Seth Cunningham crosses the street from his temporary chambers to the Yellowstone County courthouse. The building doesn’t yet have space for him, so he borrows different courtrooms and packs his judge’s robe in a tote bag. “It’s non-wrinkle,” he joked. Cunningham’s judgeship was one of two added last year to the 13th Judicial District,

Average gasoline prices in Montana have risen 22.3 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.57/g on Monday, March 23, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 615 stations in Montana. Prices in Montana are 82.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 48.4 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has increased 27.0 cents compared to a week ago

Twenty-three voter records in Montana have been confirmed as potential instances of non-citizens registering to vote and casting ballots in the state, according to the Secretary of State’s office. In a Tuesday, March 17, press release, Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen said her office had utilized the SAVE tool — an online service administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

The Montana Stockgrowers Association has joined a coalition of businesses and nonprofits to petition the Supreme Court to block I-194 from the ballot, citing the initiative is unconstitutional. I-194 would ban businesses and nonprofits from spending money or providing “anything of value” to influence the outcome of ballot measures or other political races. As written, it would ban all