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Lawmakers are giving the Department of Justice more resources to address issues like illegal drugs, human trafficking, sexual assault and the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people.

Leaders with the Montana Department of Justice came into the 2023 state legislative session saying they were dealing with a significant rise in cases.

Bills to reform Montana tax policy, support missing persons search efforts and overhaul Child Protective Services move through the Legislature. Host Mara Silvers and reporters Ellis Juhlin and Shaylee Ragar discuss the legislation they're watching this week — along with the schisms between and within the parties that are starting to form.

Two bills addressing the issue of missing persons in Montana passed out of the House floor Wednesday, and will now move on to the Senate.

Legislation to boost local efforts to respond to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s Crisis passed unanimously and heads next to the House Floor.

State legislation to boost efforts to respond to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s crisis is headed to the House floor.

Legislation to boost local efforts to respond to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s Crisis passed unanimously and heads next to the House Floor.

Seven Thai nationals who recorded a surreptitious livestream to say they had been tricked into working for scammers in Cambodia were rescued yesterday by Thai police. Two men and five women – among the thousands of Thai nationals tricked into virtual slavery in recent years – were returned to Thailand…

The widow of a Charlotte man who was killed by law-enforcement officers in August in the parking lot of a Clemmons convenience store says neither she nor her husband’s parents

When Nop tried to get help from the authorities, the Chinese captors he had been sold to locked him in a dark room, beat him, and shocked him with a baton. He had been lured to Cambodia by a promising job only to be forced into scamming Thais back home…