HELENA, Montana, Feb. 9 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release and letter on Feb. 8, 2023: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and a coalition of 21 state attorneys general today called on President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) under federal law. The FTO designation will make additional federal resources available to confront the fentanyl crisis head-on and save A more PR

HELENA, Montana, Feb. 11 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release and letter: Attorney General Austin Knudsen called on the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to return the money in their accounts that lawfully belongs to Montanans in a letter sent to the group Wednesday. The letter outlines the group's mismanagement of funds and states a lawsuit will be filed if the money is not returned. "Return the money in your accounts that belongs to Mont more PR

HELENA, Montana, Feb. 11 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen called out big banks for discriminating against firearms companies while testifying in support of pending state legislation that would prevent the state from contracting with companies that have policies discriminating against firearm entities or trade associations. House Bill 356, sponsored by Rep. Brandon Ler, would require companies seeking to do bus more PR

HELENA, Montana, Feb. 10 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 23 other states filed a lawsuit against an egregious and overreaching Biden administration gun control regulation that will turn millions of gun owners into felons if they do not register certain devices they lawfully own with the federal government and pay a tax. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota Western  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Feb. 11 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Gianforte criticized the Biden administration for issuing a rule which undermines the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Montana gunowners. The Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) recently revised criteria for firearms with stabilizing braces, subjecting nearly all firearms with attached stabilizing braces to taxation and registra more PR

HELENA, Montana, Feb. 9 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release: Following a report on NewsNation detailing the influence of the open southern border and Mexican drug cartels on Montana's fentanyl crisis, Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined Chris Cuomo on NewsNation Monday to discuss the issue and called on the federal government to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. "I don't have the authority to stop every vehicle that c more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Feb. 10 (TNSfund) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Dozens of librarians serving tribal colleges and Indigenous communities throughout the country and beyond will have the opportunity this summer to participate in a professional development event hosted by the Montana State University Library. The 2023 Tribal College Librarians Institute, or TCLI, to be held at MSU June 5-9, will be supported this year by a $75,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Feb. 10 (TNSjou) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex roamed western North America, generations of its multi-great-great-grandparents likely dwelt and evolved in what was then a much warmer, balmy environment, according to a recent scientific paper by a Montana State University student. Elias Warshaw, a senior studying paleontology in MSU's Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science,  more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Feb. 8 (TNSper) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: The Montana State University Alumni Foundation's Board of Governors has appointed Mary Jane McGarity to serve as interim president and CEO of the foundation. McGarity, MSUAF senior development officer and former vice president of development, will begin her duties Feb. 21. She replaces Chris Murray, who announced his retirement last month. "Mary Jane has shown impeccable leadership at the Alumni F more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Feb. 8 (TNSpp) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: The vast expanses of ice found in the Earth's polar regions may seem like an inhospitable wasteland devoid of life. But if you look closely, and in the right places, you'll find a plethora of microorganisms eking out a living in awe-inspiring ways, according to Montana State University researcher Christine Foreman. Foreman, who has conducted 11 seasons of fieldwork in Antarctica plus one in Greenlan more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 8 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton has joined a Montana-led amicus brief requesting the United States Supreme Court to protect a 70-year-old criminal law that has been reliably used to stop the encouragement and inducement of illegal immigration. Attorney General Paxton is urging the Court to reverse a decision by the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that struck down a statute that more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 7 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton has joined two Montana-led cert-stage amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing against advocacy groups receiving large funds in settlement cases when the victims receive little or nothing. At issue are cy pres awards, which are awards often granted to non-class third-party advocacy organizations when courts decide that they can do more for a class than the class memb more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, Feb. 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: For an animal whose population barely tops 2,000, Montana's grizzly bears hold an outsized presence in the psyche and politics of the Treasure State. Small wonder, then, that Montanans, though likely never to have seen a grizzly, hold strong opinions about the legendary bruins - opinions they readily shared for a study by the University of Montana and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, which was jus more PR