House Bill 2’s initial debate on the floor of the Montana House took almost a full day. Things went much faster on the Senate ...

Montana lawmakers are grappling with what they can do to improve patient care and operations at the state’s psychiatric ...

About 100 people a day are held in county detention centers throughout the state while they await transfer to a state ...

Montanans with severe mental illnesses that are accused of crimes can languish in jail for more than a year as they wait for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. New legislation would build a ...

The Montana hospital that fired Dr. Thomas C. Weiner turned over thousands of pages of documents, but members of the board ...

The new structure would focus on facilities, like the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs or veterans homes in Columbia Falls and Butte. It would also take up community-based programs like ...

HELENA, Mont. — As Montana lawmakers consider how much to reimburse county jails for holding inmates waiting for a bed at the Montana State Hospital, local officials continue to raise concerns ...