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Bronze medalist Katharine Berkoff, of the United States, stands on the podium after the women's 100-meter backstroke final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Montanan takes home bronze in 100 meter backstroke at Paris Olympics

A 'Welcome to Montana" sign is seen along Montana State Highway 72 near Chance, Mont., on May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Robert Yoon)

Montana receives $49.7 million federal grant for community programs to cut pollution

Rowdy Alexander watches from atop his horse as a hillside burns on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Wednesday, Aug 11, 2021, near Lame Deer, Mont. The Richard Spring fire was threatening hundreds of homes as it burned across the reservation. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Court case to decide if environmental permit law violates Montana residents’ rights

Laboratory researcher in the process of assembling a neuromorphic processor based on a photonic integrated circuit that allows computations at the speed of light. (Wikimedia Commons)

Montana receives federal tech hub funding from the Department of Commerce

The entrance to the Museum Of The Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. (Wikimedia Commons)

6 free or low-cost fun places to take your family this summer in Montana

Jenifer Powell was named 2024 Centennial Bell Montana History Teacher of the Year.

Corvallis Middle School history teacher named 2024 Montana History Teacher of the Year

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 court tosses out law defining ‘exactly two sexes’

Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, right, Republican Sen. Steve Daines, center, and NorthWestern Energy President Brian Bird on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Colstrip, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Breaking with precedent, Gov. Gianforte refuses to live in Helena

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)

Gianforte fires operations chief of Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks

Greg Gianforte attends the Crow Fair in Crow Agency, Mont., on August 18, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Greg Gianforte’s disregard for hunting norms and public goods

Voters cast ballots at the MetraPark events center, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Billings, Mont. The primary election included candidates for president, U.S. Senate, governor and other offices. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Montana’s June primary election results produced no major surprises

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