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Last year, nearly 98,500 people in Montana boarded or departed the Empire Builder, the train that rumbles across the Hi-Line as it connects Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. Passenger numbers have climbed from a COVID-era low of about 65,700, but remain well below the most recent high of 156,700 in 2010, according to the href="https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-produc...
Alejandro Santillan-Garcia is worried he’s going to lose the aid that helps him buy food. The 20-year-old Austin resident qualified for federal food benefits last year because he aged out of the Texas foster care system, which he entered as an infant.
A decades-long push to give Montana a modernized state history museum in Helena came to a wrap Tuesday with an official ribbon cutting on a new $107 million facility.
With a 70,000-square-foot addition to an existing 95,000-square-foot building, the revamped Montana Heritage Center will put a broader slice of the museum’s 60,000-item collection on display for publi...
Former Montana U.S. House candidate and Republican Stacy Zinn will replace Bill Mercer in the Montana Legislature.
Zinn was selected unanimously Tuesday by the Yellowstone County Commission to serve the final 13 months of Mercer’s two-year term in House District 52. Mercer href="https://montanafreepress.org/2025/10/23/legislator-bill-mercer-confirmed-to-u-s-dist...
The Montana Family Foundation, the state’s most prominent conservative Christian advocacy organization, announced this week that it is fundraising for the construction of a new 10,000-square-foot headquarters blocks from the state Capitol in Helena.
In a href="https://montanafreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/family-foundation-center-fundraising-email.pdf"...
