Investigators say U.S. Senate candidate Troy Downing paid non-resident taxes and referred to California as his home on social media during a period when he purchased Montana resident hunting licenses. Montana's health department is taking applications from schools and communities for suicide prevention grants. It’s municipal election day in many communities across Montana. Turnout appears to be better in some places than others. The Affordable Care Act, and it’s expansion of Medicaid are making

Governor Steve Bullock is calling the state Legislature into special session next week to address a projected $227 million budget shortfall. The Whitefish city council will hear the final draft of the city’s strategic housing plan at a regularly scheduled meeting tonight.

Governors of 19 Western states are pressing the federal government to do more to prevent the spread of damage-causing invasive mussels from infected federally managed waterways. Much of Montana is under winter weather advisories today and tomorrow and that means a lot of snow.

This upcoming weekend is the last chance many people will have to drive in Yellowstone National Park before roads close for the winter. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is seeking public comment on a proposed gravel pit four miles east of Seeley Lake. The Bureau of Indian Affairs expects to re-open a vacant Montana jail on the edge of the Crow Indian Reservation. Environmentalists have sued the Trump administration seeking to pry loose details of its plan to shrink some national

Attorneys will discuss how they might settle a lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America by women who were raped by a Montana scout leader in the 1970s. The Montana Supreme Court has struck down a victim's rights law approved by voters last year as unconstitutional. A winter storm warning has been posted for portions of central, north-central, southwest and west-central Montana. A judge has given a reprieve to the owners of a Montana coal mine who had warned layoffs were imminent after the mine

The cremated remains of Judy Martz will be escorted Friday from Butte to Helena by the Montana Highway Patrol and officers from the Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff's Department. Another Democrat has jumped into the growing field of candidates vying to challenge Republican Representative Greg Gianforte for Montana’s at-large U.S House seat.

Judy Martz, Montana’s 22nd governor, died today after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. A political watchdog organization has accused the dormant congressional campaign of U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of skirting contribution laws when it sold a motor home to a friend of Zinke at a steep discount. Attorneys for a large Montana coal mine are due in court this week to press a judge to reverse an order that could prompt dozens of layoffs by blocking the mine's plans to expand.

The deadline is only a month away for American Indian tribal members who want to receive their share of a $3.4 billion settlement. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and other federal officials are distancing themselves from a multi-million dollar contract between a small Montana company and Puerto Rico’s electric utility. A University of Montana task force says cuts to tenured faculty are not off the table as it examines ways to fix the university's budget problems. The Columbia Falls Aluminum

State agencies are wrapping up cleanup operations on a western Montana mine that caused high mercury concentrations in fish in nearby bodies of water. The coach for the combined Plains/Hot Springs wrestling team has died in a head-on crash in northwestern Montana.

Disability Rights Montana has filed a lawsuit against the Office of Public Instruction and a rural Montana school district alleging a 16-year-old boy with disabilities has not received any formal education in three years, in violation of federal law. Today, Governor Steve Bullock named Galen Hollenbaugh commissioner of the state's Department of Labor and Industry.