A group trying to continue Montana’s Medicaid expansion past its 2019 expiration date, and to help pay for it by raising existing taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products, kicked off a campaign today in Helena to gather signatures for their ballot initiative.
Gov. Steve Bullock declared a flooding emergency yesterday in seven northern Montana counties, the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and the town of Chester.
Governor Steve Bullock supports a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to raise the state’s tax on cigarettes by $2 as well as on other tobacco products. Money from the tax increase would go toward Medicaid expansion and other health services.
A man charged with raping an 8-year-old girl after DNA evidence linked him to the 1987 case wants the charge dismissed, arguing that the statute of limitations had run out.
Missoula County is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of a suspect in the March beating death of a 45-year-old woman.
A Great Falls man was found guilty of kidnapping and assault for beating a woman and holding a knife to her throat.
