The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office announced that it arrested a juvenile male Monday for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to Bigfork High School . The suspect has been charged with intimidation.

Evening newscast for Dec. 2, 2019.

Montana evening newscast for Nov. 27, 2019.

Talen Energy has agreed to pay at least $450,000 to settle air quality violations at the coal-fired Colstrip Power Plant during the summer of 2018. Two candidates in the Republican primary race for governor face off tonight at Carroll College in Helena.

Three deer from southeast Montana have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, in the first of two tests used to confirm positive results. The Montana Board of Regents has approved a $150,000 pay raise to retain the president of Montana State University, who received an offer of a higher-paying job at another university. Someone killed and wasted a bull elk in rural Fergus County, between Lewistown and Grass Range.

Attorney General William Barr announced a nationwide plan to address the crisis of missing and slain Native American women Friday, as concerns mount over the level of violence they face. A jury found Helena mayor and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Wilmot Collins not guilty of leaving the scene of a car accident earlier this year. A land conservation group says its helped ensure, 7,300 acres of land in western Montana’s Blackfoot River corridor remains in public hands.

A U.S. Senate committee advanced two bills Wednesday that aim to beef up law enforcement’s response to the missing persons crisis in Indian Country. Two stonefly species found in Glacier National Park were listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act on Wednesday due to the impacts of climate change, according to a rule published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A mandatory 35% fine that’s been on the books for certain drug cases since 1995 was ruled unconstitutional by the Montana Supreme Court. The Environmental Protection Agency has put a stop to ‘Bag O’Slag,’ sandwich bags filled with mining waste sold by the Anaconda Chamber of Commerce. An inmate at Havre’s Hill County jail died Sunday after a fight with another inmate.

The head of Montana’s Public Service Commission says he didn’t intentionally hide from the public the panel’s approval of a $6.5 million rate hike for NorthWestern Energy customers. Flathead’s Bigfork High School has its first school resource officer in 11 years. NorthWestern Energy is asking state utility regulators to sign off on the company’s request to increase their customers’ electric bills by $23.8 million for one year.

A debate between Montana Republican gubernatorial contenders is moving forward in Helena despite the absence of one of the candidates. Gov. Steve Bullock will again miss the debate stage in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.