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Workers are advocating for a better way to address the issues, especially the nursing shortage, during the current Legislative Session in Salem.

State agencies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending laws passed by the 2021 Legislature in court. Gov. Greg Gianforte wants an additional $2.6 million to bolster the Montana Department of Justice’s legal defense.

Oklahoma's newest State Treasurer says he wants to protect the state's oil and gas industry that could be targeted by financial institutions.

PAYETTE COUNTY — The first two weeks of the 2023 Idaho Legislative Session may evoke the phrase “all quiet on the western front” in some readers’ minds. The Independent-Enterprise, however,

During a two-hour meeting, the air buzzed with requests, concerns and questions for state lawmakers about how to spend a $3.6 billion budget surplus.

Voters residing in the Elk City School District will be asked once again to approve a transportation bond during the general election taking place Feb. 14.

House Speaker Scott Saiki stood before both newly-elected and long-time legislators on Wednesday to outline the issues he would like representatives to work on over the next four months.

The WVU Student Government Association passed a proclamation Wednesday night opposing the “campus carry” bill moving through the state Legislature.

The concept is simple: landlords who devote at least a tenth of their apartment buildings to affordable housing can get 75% to 100% off on the property taxes for those units.

Marty Petritz of Butte writes, Those bills that failed to become law, did so because individual hunters expressed their opposition through the public comment process. Legislators heard that collective hunter voice.