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Eminent Domain Bill Wins Senate’s Hard-Fought Endorsement
By CODY BLOOMSBURG HELENA — Voices failed from exhaustion and emotion during a two-and-half-hour debate, but the Senate gave its preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill clarifying that utility companies can take private land under Montana’s eminent domain law. But opponents said landowners aren’t getting a fair compensation under current law and House Bill 198 would do […]
Years After Court Ruling, Senate Votes to Drop Law Against Gay Sex
February 23, 2011
By JAYME FRASER HELENA – Sen. Christine Kaufmann, D-Helena, said she doesn’t want to be “held in the same regard, the same disgust” as people who have sex with animals. And the Senate largely agreed with a 41-9 vote Wednesday to decriminalize homosexuality. Montana law currently defines “deviate sexual relations” as “sexual contact or sexual […]
Chief Justice Touts Success of Drug Treatment Courts
February 10, 2011
By BRITTANY WOOLEY HELENA – The chief justice of Montana’s Supreme Court told legislators Thursday that special drug courts in some cities are saving tax dollars and getting substance abusers the treatment they need. The comments came during Chief Justice Mike McGrath’s State of the Judiciary address to lawmakers. Drug courts are special courts designed to […]
House Backs Bill Denying Anglers Access to Ditches
February 9, 2011
By CODY BLOOMSBURG HELENA — The right to whip a fly into most streams is near and dear to most Montanans and it almost swayed enough lawmakers to kill a measure that would define and then exempt irrigation ditches from the state’s stream access law. Montana’s stream access law arose in the wake of a […]
Helena Independent Record
- Cow moose and calf spotted in downtown Hamilton
- TDS Telecom breaks in Butte hub, warehouse
- Single stab wound killed Anaconda man
- Updated: Jawbone found believed to be from human
- MMIP awareness run set for May 4 in Pablo
- Missoula cafe gets visit from America's Best Restaurants
- Remembering Renee Griffith Grantham: 'Her zeal for life was astounding'
- Missoula native graduates from SAR Swimmer School serving aboard USS Michael Murphy
- No dogs allowed: Rescues struggle with influx of surrendered, abandoned pets
- 'Outstanding': Browning Public School Board selects new superintendent
Great Falls Tribune
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Billings Gazette
- Capt. Clark's signature restored on possibly four occasions
- Planned Parenthood reports shotgun fired at building, Helena police say
- If an eruption is unlikely, why monitor Yellowstone's volcano?
- New solar project in southwestern Montana will double solar production in state
- Citing new Montana law, DEQ avoids carbon pollution review
- Montana's new coal-friendly laws draw legal challenges
- New Mexico has a Yellowstone-like region, Valles Caldera
- Tourists pick up elk calf, take it to police station; 2 black bears struck by vehicles and killed
- Studies show common traits between bison, cattle
- Montana newsrooms to relaunch 'Graying Pains' reporting project on aging demographics
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