The Montana Constitution does not allow for the state to reconvene the commission to draw new legislative district between cycles, according to an analysis by the Legislative Legal Services Office. In a memo provided to the State Administration and Veterans Affairs Interim Committee last week, legal analysts with the state said the constitution lays out how the redistricting commission is selected

The Montana Department of Corrections intends to relocate women currently incarcerated at Boulder’s Riverside prison, which holds about 50 of the state’s 370 female prisoners, to Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City, according to agency spokesperson Carolynn Stocker. A press release shared by Stocker Thursday, July 9, announced that the agency planned “to explore options for the

A Wolf Point woman who was dealing meth out of a Billings motel room was sentenced Tuesday, July 14, to four years and eight months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Mark Steger Smith said. Destinee Fate Rowe, 27, pleaded guilty in January 2026 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge William

The Montana Secretary of State announced Wednesday, July 15, that the state election team confirmed three independent candidates for political office met the signature requirements to appear on the November ballot. Seth Bodnar, the former president of the University of Montana who is running in a three-way race for the U.S. Senate, submitted more than twice the number of signatures required