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Editor's note: Anna Paige was among a group of nearly two dozen Montanans who flew to Washington, D.C., to attend a rally and lobby day organized by Health Care for America Now the Montana Change That Works campaign, a project of the Service Employees International Union.

Senator-elect Al Franken 's victory over former senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race was among the closest and longest contests in modern political history.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press Fargo , N.D. The Agriculture Department says development of small grains crops remains behind average in North Dakota because of the cool, wet spring.

Good morning; on the Beacon this morning, buoyed by enrollment increases, Flathead Valley Community College's budget looks strong .

Even with millions registered nation-wide as bone marrow donors, there are thousands in need who can't find a match.

The Department of Homeland Security made a last-minute decision to uproot its Plum Island foot-and-mouth disease research facility off the coast of New York and move it to Manhattan, Kansas on January 12th.

Veterans Affairs hospitals will get $26 million worth of new sterilizing equipment to help clean endoscopes and other reusable medical devices, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday.

After 26 years, will this be the year Montana breaks the Wilderness Drought? Perhaps.

The staff of Senator Tester is putting pressure on the Beaverhead commissioners to support either the Partnership Agreement or HR 980, the Wilderness bill.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has launched a Web site to help Montana contractors and businesses interested in competing for projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Closed since 1990, this mine near Libby, Mont., had produced vermiculite ore that turned out to beA contaminated with asbestos.

EPA Announces Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana; EPA to Move Aggressively on Cleanup and HHS to Assist Area Residents with Medical Care Release date: 06/17/2009 WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced the agency has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos ...

The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has declared a public health emergency in a contaminated community, targeting a Montana town Wednesday for immediate federal attention.

Recent accounts suggest the federal health service for American Indians on reservations is in crisis.

The federal Jobs-Stimulus bill is meant to create jobs in every state, but some say Montana isn't getting its fair share.

Latest Montana news, sports, business and entertainment: health care 'S FORGOTTEN PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care's victims CROW AGENCY, Mont.

Montana's general contractors will be able to bid on one of the five federal stimulus projects to build ports on the state's northern border.

Montana has about one billion dollars in stimulus money to spend on infrastructure and other economic generators.

I first met Sen. Max Baucus five years ago in a Bozeman cafeteria. He was eating a hamburger while talking trade and boasting about the potential of RightNow Technologies, a burgeoning company in which he had volunteered his time during one of his trademark "workdays." Employees there were well aware of his visit, but few broke stride while passing ...