Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Montana Capitol, where U.S. Sen. Steve Daines was scheduled to address the Legislature. Montana lawmakers are considering a measure that would ban putting large pipelines under rivers or lakes. Wildlife managers estimate that more than 570 Yellowstone National Park bison have been killed so far this winter.

Montana lawmakers have rejected a $400,000 request to expand a state program to train doctors. The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Education did not approve an expansion request from Montana's Graduate Medical Education program. Two conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit in Federal District Court in Missoula Friday, challenging the Stonewall Vegetation Project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. In a party line vote,

Senator Steve Daines announced today he will chair one of the five subcommittees of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. A budget panel has approved a $6 million dollar increase over the next two years for Montana to deal with the record number of children in foster care. But the $16 million dollars approved today by the Joint Subcommittee on Health and Human Services comes with caveats.

The Montana Senate is calling for a constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to overturn federal regulations. Two Montana lawmakers are sponsoring bills to delay the closure of a residential facility for people with developmental disabilities determined by courts to pose risk of serious harm to themselves or others. Sen. Steve Daines will hold a town hall via telephone tonight from 6:15 to 7:15 PM, according to a representative from the Missoula office. Lawmakers in Helena are

Supporters of a bill to create a so-called Montana Paycheck Transparency Act say it will help make sure men and women are paid equally for doing equal work. Montana's House Judiciary Committee heard impassioned testimony today from both sides of a new bill to extend non-discrimination protections for gays, lesbians and transgender people across Montana. NorthWestern Energy says technical issues with meter reading equipment led some customers southeast of Helena to be under-billed in January,

The Montana Senate is supporting a bill that would provide more oversight to the Division of Child and Family Services. On Wednesday, a bill that would make it unlawful to discriminate against anyone based on their gender identity or expression or sexual orientation will have a hearing at the Montana Legislature. Havre's airport has been overbilled for power for 30 years, but it's not clear who's at fault.

Lawmakers in Helena are considering a bill that would allow foster children over the age of 14 to be involved in the planning process about their living situation as they age out of foster care.

Sen. Jon Tester announced Friday he will host an online town hall meeting this coming Wednesday. Plans for a Billings solar farm are heating up just as renewable energy politics cool at the Montana Legislature. A proposed constitutional amendment declaring corporations are not people faces extremely long odds, according to one Montana political scientist. A national government watchdog organization filed a lawsuit this morning against Montana.

A group of Republican-led lawmakers has pushed forward an effort to eliminate Montana’s office of Political Practices. Gov. Steve Bullock has declared a state of emergency for parts of northwestern Montana dealing with the aftermath of a storm that dumped up to four feet of snow in places. Days after hearing testimony from clergy, young conservative lawmakers, and an exonerated death-row inmate from Arizona, asking for the end of capital punishment, state lawmakers voted against their request.

Montana Senator Jon Tester met with President Donald Trump at the White House Thursday. Tester, a Democrat, characterized the meeting as a ‘productive conversation.' Montana U.S. Sen. Steve Daines is standing by his silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren during the Washington debate about President Donald Trump's pick as the nation's top law enforcement officer. First-time drug offenders in Montana are currently not given the option to enter residential treatment facilities in the state.