Montana’s attorney general and Republican officials from 18 other states are opposing a federal effort to strengthen medical privacy regulations, arguing that states with abortion bans should be able to obtain reproductive health care records for criminal investigations, including when a patient travels to another state. Amid the fractured landscape of legal abortion access in the wake of

A fire weather meteorologist told Gov. Greg Gianforte and other state agency officials Tuesday, July 18, that Montana should prepare for a shift to a warmer and drier back half of the summer and expect wildfires beginning in drought-stricken northwestern Montana and moving further south and east as the state dries out into the fall. The El Niño pattern that is all but certain to develop and