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Massive Montana Data Breach Exposes 462,000 Blue Cross Members
Massive Data Breach Exposes Personal Information Of Montanans Potentially half of all Montana residents are at risk after a data breach exposed their names, addresses, billing, and medical data. That's according to Blue Cross Blue Shield of...
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"Heartbreaking Situation", No charges in shooting death of teen
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — Meagher County Sheriff Jon Lopp said in a social media post on Sunday that Meagher County Attorney Burt Hurwitz will not file criminal charges related to the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy on October 29, 2025. The...
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Op-Ed: Strive for Five – Cultivating A Legacy in Montana
SPONSORED By Mary K. Rutherford – President & CEO – Montana Community Foundation In Montana, fields stretch wide and community runs deep. We all hope to do well enough on the farm, at the bank, or wherever our career takes us, to leave a little...
Owner: Brown Family
States jostle over $50b rural health fund as Trump's medicaid cuts trigger scramble
By Sarah Jane Tribble KFF Health News OCTOBER 17, 2025 WASHINGTON — Nationwide, states are racing to win their share of a new $50 billion rural health fund. But helping rural hospitals, as originally envisioned, is quickly becoming a quaint idea....
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Bottom Line: The Hidden Cost Of Data Centers In Montana
TAC Data Centers Want The Missouri River In Great Falls Montana is being heavily prospected by data centers due to our wide open spaces and access to water. Back in June, I read an article on Montana Free Press about the data center that TAC Data...
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Greater Valley Health Center Opens the Doors on a New Building
Mary Sterhan, Greater Valley Health Center’s CEO since 2019, held up a microphone while standing in front of the new facility for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday afternoon. She started to tear up, collecting herself before speaking. “My...
Owner: Maury Povich
AP News: 4 family members of Illinois governor candidate killed in Montana helicopter crash, campaign says
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Four family members of a Republican running for governor in Illinois were killed in a Montana helicopter crash, his campaign said Thursday. The son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren of former state lawmaker Darren Bailey, who lost the 2022...
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Montana's wolf management strategy caught in legal tug-of-war
Two weeks after the Outdoor Heritage Coalition and a pair of Republican lawmakers sued the state for doing too little to reduce Montana’s wolf population, a coalition of conservation groups on Wednesday made the opposite argument before a...
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As homelessness among seniors grows, Montanans have few places to turn
Nationwide, more older adults are becoming homeless because they can’t keep up with the cost of living. Chronically unhoused people are also aging. It’s a double whammy for shelters like the Poverello Center in Missoula. “We are not trained to...
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Primary Children's Hospital raises over $600M, surpassing campaign goal
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LEHI — Primary Children's Hospital raised over $642 million, breaking its original goal of $500 million. Announced in January 2020, the Primary Promise campaign's goal was to build the "nation's model health system for children" with the...
Owner: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Turkmenistan is establishing a partnership with the University of Montana in the USA
As part of a working visit to the USA, representatives of Turkmenistan's education sector visited Montana State University Billings. During the visit, they met with university leadership and toured the campus. Practical formats for educational...
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Montana Democratic Party taps former Tester staffer as vice chair
Stay up-to-date on the latest breaking news. Get MTFP's in-depth, independent reporting sent directly to your inbox. The Montana Democratic Party announced the selection of Bruce Knutson as its new vice chair on Friday, tapping the former aide to...
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After centuries of trauma, Montana’s Blackfeet Nation turns to an old friend for food sovereignty: bison
The Blackfeet Nation is a remote and rugged landscape on the windswept plains of northern Montana. While rich in resources, the remote location and management by the federal government have made food access a challenge here. Only four grocery...
Owner: The Scott Trust
Three Rivers Health gets high marks in employee engagement survey
Three Rivers Health employees seem to be enjoy their work — and that satisfaction is showing not only the lack of turnover but also in a recent engagement survey administered to the 13 affiliates of Billings Clinic. Tamara Sawyer, who handles...
Owner: David Peck
Diane Ladd Dies: Oscar-Nominated ‘Wild At Heart,’ ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ Actress Was 89
Diane Ladd, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actress best known for memorable turns in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, died at her home in Ojai this morning, according to...
Owner: Jay Penske
Secret past of lawmaker's son who killed family in chopper crash... and what happened in hours before Montana mountains tragedy
An aspiring governor's son has a reckless past - but attempted an act of love that ended in a helicopter crash that killed his wife and two of his three children. Zachary Bailey, 37, and his wife Kelsey, 35, were inside his five seater Robinson...
Owner: Jonathan Harmsworth
The Beef Montanans Have With Argentina Beef Imports
I thought Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-MT01) said it very well when talking about potential beef imports from Argentina. When it comes to America First, it's America beef first. We discussed that and more during a statewide radio townhall meeting...
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Dinosaur fossils discovered in US’ Montana reveal new species from late cretaceous period
Researchers have identified a new species of dome-headed dinosaur from fossils unearthed in Montana. The dinosaur, named Brontotholus harmoni, was found in the Two Medicine Formation in Glacier County and is believed to have lived about 75 million...
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Primary Children's Hospital raises over $600 million, surpassing campaign goal
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LEHI — Primary Children's Hospital raised over $642 million, breaking its original goal of $500 million. Announced in January 2020, the Primary Promise campaign's goal was to build the "nation's model health system for children" with the...
Owner: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Griz, lynx central to court fight over Montana logging project
Monique Merrill (CN) — Environmentalists sparred with the federal government in court on Wednesday in a bid to stop a logging project in the Garnet Mountain Range east of Missoula, Montana. “This project undermines the science by effectively...
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