HELENA - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, along with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and a coalition of 22 other states, is alerting the Chief Executive Officers of three major credit card companies that the recent creation of a Merchant Category Code for the processing...
HELENA — In response to increased demand and to further support customers in Madison County, Montana’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) will offer a weeklong mobile licensing event beginning September 26 in Ennis in the Madison Foods parking lot. The mobile unit offers service on a first...
HELENA — Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general today called on President Biden to classify fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. The 18 attorneys general demanded the president take decisive action in response to the record nationwide increase...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 17-state coalition against the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine the concept of biological sex to include “gender identity” and weaken the protections women have received from Title IX for the last fifty years. Attorney General Knudsen...
HELENA – A Montana State Prison employee who helped inmates transfer drugs to each other was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit transferring illegal articles. Three inmates were also sentenced for their roles. Prosecutor Patrick Moody in the Montana...
BOZEMAN — In response to increased demand and to further support customers in the Bozeman area, Montana’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) will offer a week-long mobile licensing event at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds Monday, Sept. 12 through Friday, Sept. 16. The Mobile Unit offers service on...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced that Montana will receive at least $6.1 million under an agreement in principle between JUUL Labs resolving a multi-state investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer’s marketing and sales practices. In addition to the financial terms, the settlement would force...
HELENA – A federal judge today granted Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s request to intervene in the case Dakota Resource Council v. U.S. Department of Interior which threatens oil and gas lease sales on federal land. Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming are also intervening states. Attorney General...
THOMPSON FALLS – A Hot Springs man was sentenced Tuesday to 80 years in Montana State Prison with no time suspended for deliberate homicide by Sanders County District Judge John W. Larson. A jury convicted Aaron Eugene McLaughlin in June following a successful prosecution by...
HELENA – As communities around the state continue to reel from drug overdoses, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is encouraging residents to remember those who have been lost from drug overdose and acknowledge the grief felt by their families and friends. Fentanyl overdose deaths in Montana...