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Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT), at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27, 2024. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Rep. Matt Rosendale wants to roll back IVF coverage for veterans

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks ranking member Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

Daines blocks nomination of lawyer who would be first Indigenous federal judge in Montana

The Appeal to Heaven flag stands with the Louisiana state flag outside the district office of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., in the Cannon House Office Building, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy, this time over the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize Christian nationalism and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. The flag was seen outside his New Jersey beach home last summer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justice Samuel Alito under fire for political flags flying on his properties

Monica Tranel, left, speaks to community members at the Memorial Day parade in Corvallis, Montana on May 27, 2024. (Credit: Richard Manning)

Democratic challenger is blunt about abortion and housing issues in Montana

U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Tim Sheehy hit with lawsuit for allegedly defrauding former employees of millions

Trump’s media company has lost more than $320 million so far this year

Photo by Emil Kalibradov on Unsplash.

Trump economic policies would cost middle-class families $1,700 a year, report finds

Photo by Ibrahim Rifath on Unsplash

Montana’s wood products industry gets federal help to boost jobs

Demonstrators gather on the step of the Montana State Capitol protesting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation on Monday, March 15, 2021, in Helena, Mont. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)

Montana is sued over policies restricting trans people from amending identity documents

Photo by Isai Ramos on Unsplash.

Native leaders call governor’s handling of foster care ‘shameful’

Greg Gianforte speaks during the 2017 Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Gov. Gianforte supports religious incursion into state’s child welfare programs

A package of Narcan (Naloxone) nasal spray opioid overdose reversal medication photographed in a pharmacy in Remington, Virginia, on January 25, 2018. (Photo by Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Overdose deaths declined in the US for the first time in five years