Montana education officials are proposing to change how they identify children with autism by creating a checklist of characteristics that the student must meet. A former athletic trainer charged with abusing numerous Montana students over decades under the guise of improving their athletic performance is due to plead guilty to a federal coercion charge. Glacier National Park managers are implementing new lottery-based backcountry camping reservations intended to preserve the park’s overloaded

One day after the collapse of a gym roof at Montana State University, a regiment of local structural engineers is assessing the integrity of other buildings on the Bozeman campus. Montana's forestry agency is working with federal, local and private organizations to increase logging on national forests to improve forest health and decrease the risk of disease and catastrophic fires. Gov. Steve Bullock has issued his first veto of the legislative session.

The 23-year-old woman accused in the August 2017 stabbing death and dismemberment of a man and a teenage girl has pleaded guilty to two charges. Part of the roof at a Montana State University fitness center in Bozeman has collapsed. The capturing of hundreds of bison in Yellowstone National Park began today as part of a continuing effort to manage the herd's population in the park.

A group of logging opponents offered the highest bid in the auction of a timber sale in southern Montana. A sex assault charge against a Montana man has been dropped because a judge ruled the man didn’t get a speedy trial. Republican State Senator Duane Ankney of Colstrip says he’s 65 percent confident a White House plan to subsidize coal-fired power plants will succeed. The Montana legislature reconvenes Thursday after its brief transmittal break. The House Appropriations Committee takes center

Sentencing for a Montana woman who pleaded guilty to charges related to smoking methamphetamine in a YMCA Learning Center for children has been postponed so sides can review restitution in the case. President Donald Trump Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at preventing veteran suicide. Montana's largest electricity provider released a draft of its plan to expand its power generation capacity by 800 megawatts in the next six years.

A hearing for a former high school trainer accused of sexually abusing dozens of students has been delayed after the defendant asked to enter his guilty plea before a different judge. An administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency who’s been praised by leaders in Butte and Anaconda has been promoted to become a senior advisor to newly-confirmed head of the EPA. One of the oldest coal companies in the U.S. says it expects to emerge from bankruptcy in coming weeks after a judge approved

KFBB-TV is reporting that a search-and-rescue operation is underway for a snowmobiler missing since around 2 p.m. the Montana House has passed a bill to allow people on probation or parole to use medical marijuana if a doctor prescribes it. Montana authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in lake county and a suspect has been arrested.

Governor Steve Bullock is planning a sixth trip to Iowa and his political-action committee has hired a staffer to organize his efforts in the early voting state. Governor Steve Bullock says he is undecided on a new policy to fundamentally shift how the state pays for major infrastructure projects. Military officials say an Air Force bomb disposal unit blew up dozens of damaged projectiles along a rural Montana highway earlier this month after a truck hauling Navy weapons was involved in a crash

Continued snowfall means more school closures tomorrow. A proposal to change how the state borrows for major infrastructure projects passed its first vote in the Montana House today by 100 to zero. Montana officials say a Bozeman man who died in an avalanche was a passionate skier who was recently accepted to a school for physical therapy.

Residents in parts of western Montana dug out from more than 2 feet of snow today as a winter storm pounded the southern part of the state, closing major roadways and prompting backcountry avalanche warnings. U.S. environmental regulators are leaving intact an air quality standard for power plant pollution that can worsen asthma in children, despite calls by health advocates for a tougher standard. Montana’s U.S. Senators are on opposite sides of a resolution that would condemn President Trump’s