The town of Browning has been in the process of disbanding due to financial issues since 2016. In March of 2016, a Lewis and Clark County District Judge appointed Robert Denning to take over financial control of the town’s assets and debt. According to Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Chairman Harry Barnes, the Tribe has been in negotiations Read More…
HELENA – Officials announced a new Montana National Guard program that will allow limited hunting on Fort Harrison grounds. It’s called the Purple Heart Deer Program. Each year it will allow up to five Purple Heart recipients to hunt big game in Fort Harrison’s training area. National Guard leaders said the program is a way to Read More…
HELENA, Mont. – Numbers from the state show Montana public school students’ standardized test scores did not increase from last year to this year. The test scores released on Tuesday show about half of all public school students graded as at least proficient in English language arts and about 40 percent as proficient in math, Read More…
BILLINGS – Republican and state District Judge Russell Fagg is traveling the state, raising money and touting prominent endorsements – but insists he’s still “exploring” whether to run for the U.S. Senate. “No, I’m not a candidate at this point, and I made that very clear,” he told MTN News in an interview late last Read More…
“I will surely and definitely tame the deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” he declared in an unusually direct and angry statement published Thursday by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. The North Korean leader’s warning about “fire,” which echoed President Donald Trump’s August statement threatening “fire and fury,” was par for the course in Read More…
Sen. John McCain on Friday said he would not vote for the GOP’s latest plan to repeal and replace much of Obamacare — dealing the effort a potentially fatal blow. The Arizona Republican said he could not support the bill because it was not “the product of regular order in the Senate,” meaning it did Read More…
Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian PressPublished Friday, September 22, 2017 12:55PM EDT OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join hundreds of disabled veterans from across Canada and more than a dozen other countries in Toronto on Saturday to help kick off this year’s edition of the Invictus Games. Yet even as those veterans prepare for Read More…
TORONTO – Police are trying to identify a man who allegedly exposed himself in front of a Toronto building that housed a daycare on the main level. It’s alleged the man stood, with his pants down, in front of the building before fleeing the area. Investigators say the incident occurred on Sept. 15 in the Read More…
[embedded content] Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on “The View” Friday that President Trump’s onetime chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, has a “messianic complex” and white nationalist “tendencies.” The candid and accusatory remarks were just the latest example of Scaramucci’s openness about what he considered the Trump administration’s flaws, during his short Read More…
In a lengthy written statement, Sen. John McCain said he “cannot in good conscience” vote for the proposal from Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), which GOP leaders have been aiming to bring to the Senate floor next week. “I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have Read More…
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, during the committee’s confirmation hearing for Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) In a Friday afternoon press release, U.S. Senator John McCain has announced his opposition to the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare reform effort, casting serious Read More…
Less than 1 in 4 people surveyed approve of Senate Republicans’ last-ditch healthcare legislation to replace Obamacare, according to the latest poll by left-leaning Public Policy Polling. The survey found just 24 percent approve and 50 percent disapprove of Graham-Cassidy, so called after Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, the primary co-sponsors of the bill. Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Republican senators aiming to end frustration over their stalled agenda and fend off the threat of 2018 primary challenges face two critical tests next week: their last-chance effort to repeal Obamacare, and a primary runoff in the Alabama special election that has reignited establishment-outsider tensions. If Republicans succeed in their Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles Late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been on a roll lately. As Stephen Colbert’s ratings have gone up by capturing the attention of angry liberals, Kimmel had to do something. So he took up the crusade against touching Obamacare and is using his son for moral authority. His facile logic Read More…
For years I’ve had a game pass package with NFL.com. Since we don’t have an NFL team in Montana, I found that I could watch games of all the teams this way. NFL players have decided that disrespecting the flag by kneeling or sitting during the playing of the national anthem before games is a Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles For the first time in nearly 20 years, the president seems out of alignment, on policy and political goals, with his party in Congress. This strikes many as an anomalous, even alarming, situation. But if you look back at history, it’s more like the norm — even if Donald Trump Read More…
PALM DESERT, Calif., Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — College of the Desert today deployed a first-of-its-kind, renewable energy mobile unit made by JLM Energy, a California-based renewable technology company. The school will use Foldrz in sustainability education programs and as a recruiting tool with prospective students. College of the Desert today deployed a first-of-its-kind, renewable energy Read More…
Apple lovers in Asia and Australia were less than impressed with the iPhone 8 when it hit stores Friday morning but New Yorkers turned out with the usual fanfare, complete with long lines, hours of waiting and Apple’s very own “hype man” to get people excited. Hundreds of people were outside of the Apple 5th Read More…
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — For industries that require men and women to work at heights, such as wind energy, utilities, construction, telecommunications and transportation, the demand for high-quality fall protection equipment has never been greater. That’s because fall protection safety standards are more stringent than ever. In line with this industry movement, global safety equipment manufacturer Read More…
Walmart wants access to your refrigerator. The discount giant, battling Amazon in the grocery home-delivery game, is testing a program that won’t just get your milk and eggs and non-perishables to your home — but get them placed in your kitchen and even into the refrigerator. The Bentonville, Ark., chain is working with August Home, Read More…