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PNS Daily Newscast - January 27, 2020

NBA legend Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash with his daughter. And states work to make U.S. Census fair for people of color.

2020Talks - January 27, 2020

Polls are back and forth, but frontrunners are emerging. So many Iowa voters, though, are still undecided, so anything could happen. Plus, Andrew Yang qualifies for NH debate.

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The Indian Child Welfare Act was enacted in 1978. (USDA NRCS Montana/Flickr)

Law Protecting Native Children Against Family Separation is Challenged

Friday, January 24, 2020

HELENA, Mont. - A federal court is considering challenges to a four-decades-old law put in place to protect Native American children against state- ...Read More

Three years after an estimated 4 million people gathered in the streets, the Women's March is taking place again across the country. (Montanasuffragettes/Wikimedia Commons)

MT 2020 Women's March Looks to Capture First March's Energy

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

HELENA, Mont. -- The Women's March returns to cities around the globe ahead of the crucial 2020 election. Three years ago, protestors took to the ...Read More

Montana ranchers say they're getting a raw deal from the four large packing corporations that control most of the beef market. (Northern Plains Resource Council)

MT Ranchers Call Out Lack of Labeling in USMCA

Monday, January 13, 2020

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are nearing approval of a deal to replace NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, but ...Read More

The Nature Conservancy is selling a checkerboard of land parcels to the U.S. Forest Service. (The Nature Conservancy)

MT National Forest Grows with The Nature Conservancy Sale

Friday, January 10, 2020

MISSOULA, Mont. - Lolo National Forest in western Montana is growing. The Nature Conservancy has sold more than 16,000 acres of former industrial ...Read More

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, but researchers say the average rate paid by companies is 11%. (Adobe Stock)

Report: Many Big Companies Pay Nothing Under New Tax Law

Friday, January 3, 2020

HELENA, Mont. - During the first year of the Trump administration's new tax law, 91 Fortune 500 companies didn't pay a dime in federal income tax ...Read More

The Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana has its own cultural herd of 350 animals on 15,000 acres. (Chamois Andersen/Defenders of Wildlife)

Groundbreaking Program Transfers Female Yellowstone Bison to Grow Herds

Thursday, December 26, 2019

FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVATION, Mont. - Thirty million bison once roamed the American West. Now, only 21,000 remain that are managed as wildlife ...Read More

Montana farmers have received less than 1% of the federal subsidies to offset losses from the trade war. (Matt/Adobe Stock)

Many MT Farmers Happy to Have 2019 in the Rearview

Monday, December 23, 2019

HELENA, Mont. -- If Montana Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer could describe 2019 for farmers in one word, it would be "struggle." While ...Read More

Public schools on Montana reservations are more likely to have law enforcement on campus, according to a new report. (bartsadowski/Adobe Stock)

Report: Native Students Suspended, Arrested 6 Times More Often

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

HELENA, Mont. - Indigenous students are disciplined more often and more severely than their white peers in Montana public schools, according to a new ...Read More

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