A bill being considered by Montana lawmakers would require media outlets owned by out-of-state corporations to prominently identify their owners and their headquarters in large print on the front of their publications and on online content. Carroll College plans to eliminate five majors and create a new school of professional and graduate studies as the Catholic school deals with declining enrollment. A storm raging through western Montana will keep students in public and Catholic schools in

A state Senate committee has advanced a measure that would allow NorthWestern Energy to buy out the five other owners of the troubled Colstrip coal-fired power plant for $1. Montana's former House speaker has identified a lawmaker from Box Elder as the state legislator who sent harassing text messages to another legislator in 2017. A 9-year-old boy died after hitting a tree at a ski resort in southwest Montana.

A federal magistrate judge has delayed a change-of-plea hearing for a 78-year-old man accused of coercing and enticing underage boys when he was an athletic trainer at Custer County District High School decades ago. The Montana House has passed two bills seeking to prohibit local governments from passing stricter gun ordinances. Montana Attorney General Tim Fox’s chief deputy has announced he plans to run for Fox’s seat in next year’s election.

A legislative committee has rejected bills aiming at limiting or overturning the death penalty in Montana. The head of the Cascade County Republicans is pressuring a legislator from Great Falls to resign over his previous role as Custer County District High School's principal during the time that an athletic trainer is accused of sexually abusing students. Another coal-fired power plant in Montana is slated for closure. Yellowstone Public Radio’s Kay Erickson reports. Environmental groups have

Montana’s 2015 campaign finance law survived it’s biggest test today. Governor Steve Bullock’s request for more than $20 million for preschool funding is not included in the legislature’s initial draft of public education funding. A Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotive hit a pickup truck in western Montana today, sending one person to the hospital.

Two Montana women detained by a U.S. border agent who overheard them speaking Spanish are suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection over claims that the agent had no reason to detain them. Gov. Steve Bullock is traveling to Iowa this week for his fifth trip to the Hawkeye State since he began exploring a possible 2020 presidential run last year. Montana lawmakers heard several bills seeking to make changes to the state's child protection system, setting higher standards for removing children from

A study estimates tens of thousands of people would lose their health coverage if a proposal to change Montana's Medicaid expansion program becomes law. Environmental groups said Wednesday they plan to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to prevent the recent loss of the last herd of mountain caribou in the Lower 48 states. An accident involving a school bus in Miles City sent seven people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The U.S. Senate passed a landmark public lands bill Tuesday that includes permanent re-authorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act. The Montana Senate has approved a measure that would require abortion providers to ask women if they want to view an ultrasound and listen to the fetuses' heartbeats before an abortion is performed. Federal Magistrate Judge Timothy Cavan says U.S. officials have failed for a second time to adequately consider the

Some Montana lawmakers want to make it more difficult to transfer cash out of the state's fire suppression fund after $30 million went to shore up the state budget in 2017, just before Montana's most expensive fire season. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say hunters in several western Montana hunting districts have met the quota of female mountain lions for the season. Prosecutors are pushing to restore Montana's mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison for convictions of

Court records say a former Montana high school athletic trainer accused of sexually abusing students plans to plead guilty to a federal charge of coercion and enticement. A Montana lawmaker wants to make sure that meat produced in a laboratory isn't labeled the same as meat from livestock and poultry. Officials say the seven fraternities at Montana State University have voluntarily given up hard liquor.