Stephanie Farmer

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With rental costs skyrocketing, a handful of landlords are forgoing higher prices.

Scarcity is pushing some employers ‘to the brink.’

The Montana COPP found Alden Tonkay misreported more than $2000 in debts.

Montana educators have long dipped into their pockets for classroom essentials. A national nonprofit is helping alleviate the strain.

Registration restrictions and new voter ID requirements are now blocked.

Montana to consider increasing oversight of nonprofit hospitals amid questions about whether they pay their fair share.

Agency had initially indicated it wouldn’t comply with verbal order from judge.

Refugees can face long waits for care, plus a lack of clinicians who understand the culture of the people they are serving.

The Board of Public Assistance is in the crosshairs now amid Gov. Gianforte’s efforts to reduce government red tape.

June’s record-breaking flooding in Montana illustrates the importance of risk mapping for people living in the floodplain.

Reviewing its latest regulatory revisions, Montana’s K-12 education board wrestled with politically charged language.

The two disagree whether trip was a mistake or a Chinese distraction.

Last spring, a year after COVID-19 had first ripped through the United States, Republican lawmakers in Montana doubled down. They passed the nation’s most extreme anti-vaccination law. Not even nurses in a cancer ward could be required to get the shots. Less than three months later, the delta wave s…

Oil and gas industry groups, publicly and cooperatively owned electricity providers and environmental nonprofits highlight elements of the Inflation Reduction Act — President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill — they expect to have an outsized impact on Montana’s energy landscape, including tax cred…

The Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge near Marion is the first refuge created during Haaland’s tenure.

MTFP talks to experts about the most common ways people cause wildfires.

Agencies have adapted COVID lessons to curb overdoses, STDs, and gun violence.

At least seven publicly and privately owned sites in Montana bear the names of physicians and officials who openly supported eugenic theories or helped impose forced sterilizations of disabled people. Historians say that’s an opportunity.