A federal judge won’t allow the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a permit for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. The Forest Service says it will meet with objectors to its plan to log and burn a nearly 18,000 acre area in Helena’s municipal watershed. State wildlife officials say an elk hunter reported shooting a charging grizzly bear west of Augusta. The National Weather Service predicts fairly tame weather across Montana through Thursday evening, when we

The National Park Service is giving people more time to weigh in on a proposed fee increase at 17 of its most popular parks - including Glacier and Yellowstone. The Montana Supreme Court has ruled a fellow justice accepted an illegal plea while overseeing a sexual assault case in 2015. Opponents of two gold mines proposed near Yellowstone National Park are pressing Montana U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte to sponsor legislation that would withdraw public lands in the area from future mining.

Montana Athletics Director Ken Haslam says he's not renewing the contract of football coach Bob Stitt for the 2018 season. The Montana-based company that won, and then lost, a $300 million contract to restore power in Puerto Rico says its on-the-ground workers are starting to pack up and go home. The Montana State Fund is suing to block a $30 million patch to the state budget passed by lawmakers last week. A Hamilton pain doctor plans to appeal his convictions on 22 felonies, including two

Montana U.S. Senate hopeful Troy Downing has been receiving California tax exemptions for claiming his house near San Diego as a primary residence. More than 16,000 residents residences between Polson and Eureka lost power this morning when a major electrical line failed.

Five of the six Democrats running for their party's nomination to challenge Congressman Greg Gianforte will be at a forum in Butte tonight. The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for leads on who was responsible for shooting a crop dusting plane in southwestern Montana.

The Republican party’s keystone bill to patch the state budget passed Montana’s House and Senate this afternoon nearly along party lines. The Montana Senate passed five bills that would take a $65 million bite out of the state’s quarter-billion-dollar budget deficit. Officials suspect a second deer killed in south central Montana may have been infected with chronic wasting disease. Police in Minnesota say the father of a toddler who accidentally shot himself with his dad's loaded handgun has

During a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday, the head of Puerto Rico’s electric power authority, or PREPA, justified signing a controversial $300 million contract with a small energy company in Montana. A proposal to accept $30 million in exchange for extending the contract for a private prison in Shelby is one option state lawmakers are considering in the special legislative session to address the state budget shortfall. Republican state lawmakers expanded the scope of the special legislative session

A proposal to temporarily charge a fee for state management of Montana's workers' compensation fund drew strong opposition as lawmakers began a special session to address a $227 million budget shortfall. The chairwoman of Montana's House Appropriations Committee is sponsoring a bill to transfer state agency money to the general fund to help balance the state budget.

Three former employees of the Blackfeet Head Start program have pleaded not guilty to charges alleging they falsified overtime claims to steal money from the federally funded program. A 61-year-old transient man died of hypothermia in Missoula this week, prompting the Union Gospel Mission to open its day shelter at night through mid-March.

Billings has a new mayor. Bill Cole won nearly double the votes of his opponent, former Republican state lawmaker Jeff Essman. A Montana State Prison inmate with a story straight out of Hollywood died Monday at 86 years old. As state legislators return to Helena next week to try to balance the state budget, one of the programs facing deep cuts is tasked with protecting rivers and lakes in the Flathead Basin from invasive mussels. Voters in Montana's capital city have elected a Liberian refugee