Montana/Region

Idaho lt. governor wants harshest US abortion ban

Published on Tue, 05/10/2022 - 12:00am
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin on Monday demanded that Republican Gov. Brad Little call a special legislative session to eliminate rape and incest as legal exceptions to Idaho’s abortion law.

Mont. state senator and U.S. House candidate dies

Published on Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:00am
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Democratic state lawmaker and congressional candidate Mark Sweeney has died, according to a statement from his family. Sweeney, 62, served in the state legislature since 2019, first as a representative and most recently as a senator. He was also one of three Democratic nominees for Montana’s new second congressional district.

Montana AG to pull out of national attorneys general association

Published on Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:00am
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Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and two other Republican attorneys general have pulled out of the national association of state attorneys general.

Idaho residents deceived by TurboTax ads to get checks

Published on Fri, 05/06/2022 - 12:00am

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho residents who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services by the company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will receive money following a settlement.

ND company scrubs plans for trans-state natural gas pipeline

Published on Thu, 05/05/2022 - 12:00am

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Despite millions of dollars in promised subsidies, a unit of North Dakota’s only Fortune 500 company says it won’t pursue plans to build a natural gas pipeline from western North Dakota’s oil patch to the eastern part of the state.

West Yellowstone to host 2022 International Fly Fishing Film Festival on May 13

Published on Thu, 05/05/2022 - 12:00am

The 2022 International Fly Fishing Film Festival is coming to West Yellowstone on May 13.

Mother charged in kids’ deaths could face death if convicted in Idaho case

Published on Wed, 05/04/2022 - 12:00am

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors in Idaho say they will seek the death penalty against a woman charged with killing her two youngest children and her new husband’s previous wife.

Grizzly bear confirmed in mountains near Lewistown

Published on Tue, 05/03/2022 - 12:00am

Bear tracks and hair samples collected in the North Moccasin Mountains near Lewistown confirm the presence of a grizzly bear in the area, Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks officials said Monday.

Former Idaho lawmaker guilty of raping intern

Published on Mon, 05/02/2022 - 12:00am
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker was convicted Friday of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern after a dramatic trial in which the young woman fled the witness stand during testimony, saying “I can’t do this.”

Psychiatric patient charged with assaulting woman

Published on Mon, 05/02/2022 - 12:00am

HELENA (AP) — A patient at Montana’s state psychiatric hospital is charged with aggravated assault after authorities say he repeatedly kicked a fellow patient in the head in an attack that left her with severe injuries and led federal regulators to end the hospital’s reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid.