HELENA, Montana, Sept. 2 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2022: A federal judge today granted Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen's request to intervene in the case Dakota Resource Council v. U.S. Department of Interior which threatens oil and gas lease sales on federal land. Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming are also intervening states. Attorney General Knudsen can now protect Montana's sovereign and economic interests in continuing quarte more PR

BILLINGS, Montana, Sept. 1 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2022: At a construction site in Yellowstone County, Governor Greg Gianforte today announced the number of new apprenticeships in Montana this year is on track to surpass the number for 2018, 2019, and 2020 combined. "A four-year college degree isn't the path for everyone, and Montana needs more carpenters, plumbers, welders, and electricians like those I met today," Gov. Gianforte said.  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 31 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Gianforte last week appealed the Biden administration's approval of the American Prairie Reserve's (APR) bison grazing proposal for 63,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in northeast Montana. The federal decision comes despite significant opposition from impacted communities and elected officials in Montana. In an appeal to the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), the gover more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 2 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release: Amid nearly nine months of silence from the Biden administration on Montana's petition to delist the recovered grizzly bear in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, Governor Greg Gianforte recently blasted U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for its proposed rulemaking associated with the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The FWS' proposed change would allow endangered species to be reintroduced in more PR

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 31 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release: Promoting efforts to recruit more educators by increasing starting teacher pay, Governor Greg Gianforte met with two starting teachers at Manhattan High School who are benefiting from higher starting teacher pay through the TEACH Act. "Creating greater opportunities for all Montanans to prosper, including our educators, is what our Montana Comeback Plan is all about," Gov. Gianforte said. "We boosted more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 3 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Ryan Zinke, Republican candidate for MT-01, has now skipped two public debates and has refused to have an honest and truthful discussion with Montanans about the damning report released by a Trump-appointed, and Sen. Daines-confirmed, Inspector General that revealed he had purposefully misled investigators who were looking into corruption allegations during his tenure as Secretary of the Interior. For m more PR

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 31 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: At Friday's Children, Families, Health and Human Services Interim Committee Hearing, the Director of DPHHS was asked, point blank, if there were any plans to privatize Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, which provides vital care to some of Montana's most at-risk patients. "No. There is not a plan to privatize the State Hospital... At this point in time." Watch the exchange here: CLIP, CFHHS Interim more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 1 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: At Friday's Districting and Apportionment Commission hearing, GOP Rep. Brad Tschida incorrectly stated that it wasn't "fair" that Native Americans are supposedly "overrepresented" in the Montana Legislature. This is not the first time he's made this racist and non-factual argument. The first time he claimed that Native Americans are overrepresented in the Montana legislature was during the congressiona more PR

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 27 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Earlier this summer, the National Bison Range was returned to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The CSKT waited over a century for their bison range to be returned to them. One of the biggest reasons it took so long in recent history? Ryan Zinke, then-Secretary of the Interior and current MT01 candidate, refused to give the land back. In 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service informed the C more PR

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 30 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: As of last week, there were still over 1,000 open teaching positions in schools across the state. The obvious question is what is causing the shortage? Is there simply a shortage of qualified educators and teachers in the state? Or is Montana leadership letting our teachers down? According to the Montana Department of Labor and Industry's report on workforce supply and demand, it is not a problem of sup more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 3 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: The Montana State University College of Letters and Science has awarded its 2022 Kopriva Graduate Student Fellowships to three doctoral students whose research has biomedical applications. Gary Dunn, Brady Hislop and Esther Stopps each will receive $5,000 to support their research, including expenses such as travel, instruction and supplies. They will present their research in Kopriva Science Semi more PR

BILLINGS, Montana, Aug. 30 (TNSfund) -- Montana State University-Billings issued the following news: Montana State University Billings' Montana Center for Inclusive Education received for the first time, a grant from the Montana Healthcare Foundation for $25,000 to support the work of MSUB's Institute for Neurodiversity & Applied Behavior Analysis. The Institute serves children in the region with mental, social, and behavioral differences associated with autism spectrum disorders, developmental more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, Sept. 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: From her University of Montana lab in landlocked Missoula, Montana, geosciences researcher Hilary Martens has garnered an international reputation for research ciphering the interplay of large bodies of water and the Earth and its impact on everything from drought to volcanoes. In just a few short years, her findings have generated a number of large and prestigious grants to further her research more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, Sept. 2 (TNSawa) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: American Indian Business Leaders is the only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to empowering Indigenous business students across the United States. And the nonprofit's top chapter in the nation resides at the University of Montana College of Business. UM took home Chapter of the Year honors for 2022 in the University Division of the recent 28th Annual AIBL Leadership Conference in Rancho M more PR