The Polson City Commission selected retired law enforcement officer Joe May as incoming city judge during a meeting last Wednesday, June 26. There were four candidates for the job, including incumbent ...

The Supreme Court said Thursday it will not hear a case involving a push to revive a law that minors must have their parents’ ...

Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high. There have been ...

Nora Mabie and Kaiden Forman-Webster Montana Free Press + ICT Legislation signed May 12 by Gov. Greg Gianforte offers a path toward resolving a long-standing law enforcement dispute between the state ...

The fate of the old Shasta County Courthouse and plans to expand Hawes’ Farms, which have been in limbo for nearly a year and a half, are part of a packed supervisors’ agenda Tuesday.

Courts Polson Defense Attorney and Lake County Judge-elect Pleads Not Guilty to Felony Drug Charges Britt Cotter was elected in November to represent Lake and Sanders counties before resigning ...

A newly elected district court judge poised to take the bench next month in Montana’s 20th Judicial District will not proceed with the oath of office amid felony drug charges filed against him ...

Lake County District Court Judge Amy Eddy sided with the state of Montana last year, finding that Lake County is still responsible for costs. The county then appealed to the state's highest court, ...

POLSON — Lake County's efforts to get the state to pay for policing on Tribal lands hit another roadblock this week with the Montana Supreme Court ruling against the county. The ruling concerns ...

Lance Jasper, an attorney representing Lake County in its lawsuit against the state regarding Public Law 280, speaks at a commission meeting at the Lake County Courthouse in Polson on Dec. 12, 2023.

POLSON — Lake County's efforts to get the state to pay for policing on Tribal lands hit another roadblock this week with the Montana Supreme Court ruling against the county. The ruling concerns ...