The American Psychological Association found that parents do indeed have a favorite child: “I hear all the time, ‘He’s your ...

Montana lawmakers look at property tax relief proposals ...

Key takeaways from our investigation revealing how expensive properties use a system meant to help farmers and ranchers.

It was a modern-day range war in a warming West – a fight for power in its most elemental form,” wrote Amy Gamerman, author ...

House Bill 121 appears to specifically target two Montana lawmakers — transgender state Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D) and nonbinary ...

More than half of the properties were located in Gallatin, Flathead, Park and Ravalli counties, all parts of western Montana that have become epicenters of the state’s real estate boom.

As property taxes surge in Montana, some say the state’s tax code is letting luxury real estate owners benefit from a tax ...

Modeled after the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, the state credit in House Bill 21 aims to be one fix to the state’s persistent lack of housing and the high cost of existing homes.

Earlier this week, Montana Free Press and High Country News published a lengthy investigation into a facet of the state’s tax code that has been a perennial concern on the loophole front for decades: ...

A look at their tax bills, though, reveals a difference, the result of a singular quirk of Montana’s tax code. One of the two parcels, like most homes in Montana, is classified as residential ...

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