Thursday, July 3, 2025

No Place to Hide

Story by Brett Berntsen Through a dead-bolted door, in an office space charged with humming wires and heated plastic, a team of techies gathers. Their...

Looking In From Afar

Katie J.M. Baker, a staff writer for Jezebel.com (tagline: Celebrity, sex, fashion for women), traveled to Missoula to examine what some were calling a...

Year In Review: Dark Money and the Keystone Pipeline

Dark Money Casts Shadow Over 2012 Montana Elections By Amy Sisk An unprecedented amount of money entered the 2012 Montana elections thanks in part to a...
Preaching To the Choir

Preaching to the Choir

By Stephanie Parker When it comes to keeping secrets, few do it better than the CIA. But this summer, the agency voluntarily released a few...

Year in Review: Sparking Resistance and ADUs

Despite causing the worst damage the state has seen in 100 years, wildfires may be helping Montana. The western United States endured one of the...

50th Anniversary of Vietnam: Through a Veteran’s Lens

Story by Tera Dittbrenner, photos by Bernie Azure. Bernie Azure an Assiniboine from Montana, volunteered for Vietnam when he was 19 years old. He returned...

The Dude Provides

Story by Courtney Anderson  About 1,500 readers visit the Last Best News website daily. Thanks to a campaign to encourage Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges to...
John Munsell featured

The Grind

By Tom Lutey If there's E. coli in your hamburger, there are feces in your meat, plain and simple, which is about all Miles City...
Billings Sex offendors screen shot featured

Gaps on the Map

By Tom Kuglin In an effort to make its sexual and violent offender registry more accessible to the public, the Montana Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Expanding The Wild

Expanding the Wild

By Dave Stalling Congressional stalemates have held up legislation for years that could create the first new wilderness designations Montana has seen in a generation....

Standing Rock: Native journalists torn between passion and neutrality

Story by Jason Begay, photos by Olivia Vanni See more of MJR's Standing Rock Coverage with this interactive web documentary. Even if it weren’t for that...

Life Changers: Tyler Hamilton’s Ride on the Front Page

Story by Michael Wright, photos by Ashley Stidham Seventeen years ago, the Festina cycling team was booted from the Tour de France after its coach...