HELENA – Montana Highway Patrol (MHP) Trooper Barb Armstrong today received the Medal of Valor, the agency’s highest award for locating a woman who had been viciously attacked by river otters, providing aid, and guiding a life flight helicopter to their location. MHP Colonel Steve...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined a coalition of 24 states in opposition to a new permitting rule proposed by the Biden administration illegally mandating social, environmental, and race-based regulations for infrastructure projects. In a letter sent today to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the...
HELENA – A Kalispell man received three-year sentence and ordered to pay restitution on Monday following his guilty plea for committing Medicaid fraud, Attorney General Knudsen announced today. The Montana Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) received a referral in 2021 alleging Clayton Earl...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of attorneys general in calling on the firms to stop their unlawful discriminatory employment practices or they will be held accountable by the attorneys general. Well-documented and data-backed reports outline racial discrimination in employment and...
Statement from Montana Department of Justice regarding the state Supreme Court decision in Weems v. State of Montana: “The state Supreme Court has become disgracefully radicalized and out of touch with Montanans. This case was not about the right to abortion – it was about whether...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a motion for sanctions against Planned Parenthood, other abortionists, and their counsel Monday in state district court after they knowingly and intentionally violated the laws of Montana and disrespected the judiciary and Montana’s system of government by...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called on the Biden administration to extend its comment period on its proposed rule to force schools to allow boys to play on girls’ sports teams or lose federal funding from May 15 to July 12, which...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called out President Biden’s recent irresponsible, radical, and unconstitutional statements he made during the State of the Union demanding Congress ban firearms commonly used by law-abiding Americans for self-defense. In a letter sent to President Biden, 15 other...
HELENA – On behalf of the State of Montana, Attorney General Austin Knudsen filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging Portland, Oregon’s illegal policies that block the transportation of fuel through its borders and hinder the ability of Montana energy products to reach regional...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Knudsen called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to postpone for a month its hasty decision to cut in half the flow rates out of Fort Peck Dam and protect the northeast Montana sugar beet harvest. In a letter...