 KUC-AV News Time. It's 1230. I'm Stuart Davis. The Montana Department of Labor and Industry announced that the state's unemployment rate held steady in the month of May at 3.1%, the same rate as in April and nearly 1% below the national rate of 4%. As for the Tri-County area, Lewis and Clark's 2.3% remained one of the lowest rates in the state. Jefferson, meanwhile, was 2.7%, while Broadwater County's unemployment rate was 3.3% in May.