A Montana native and University of Montana graduate was awarded a prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Grant yesterday. A backlog in the review of water pollution permits within Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality is leading to an increased risk to public health and aquatic life. That’s according to an audit of the state’s pollution control program given to state lawmakers today. The University of Montana today announced it’s raised more than three-quarters of an ambitious fundraising goal

Montana is getting half a million dollars from a new federal grant to train teachers and students on school safety, following the mass shooting earlier this year at a high school in Parkland Florida. Montana's attorney general is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2003 ruling that says it's unconstitutional to bring new criminal charges after a state's statute of limitations for the crime has expired. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has scheduled a visit next week to Montana, where

Industry-funded opponents of two Montana citizen's initiatives are vastly outspending the measures' supporters to put their messages in front of voters about a month before Election Day. Montana attorney general Tim Fox is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2003 ruling that says it's unconstitutional to bring new charges after a state's statute of limitations for the crime has expired. A Montana district judge has ruled that the state improperly revoked a Billings medical marijuana

In his visit to Bozeman today, Vice President Mike Pence criticized Montana’s Democratic Senator Jon Tester for announcing his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before an FBI investigation into the judge is completed. A US Senate committee today approved a trio of bills supporters say will fund conservation projects and streamline dispute resolution on public lands. Montana's Crow Indian Tribe says it's reviewing a U.S. audit saying it misused $4.8 million intended for water

U.S. Senate candidates Matt Rosendale and Jon Tester attacked each other on how they raise campaign money during the first of two televised debates Saturday. Montana's minimum wage is going up 20 cents to $8.50 an hour, starting on Jan. 1. Montana grain producers seem cautiously optimistic about the revamped North American Trade Deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

University of Montana leaders announced budget cuts and reallocations Thursday as they work to match spending on instructors to total enrollment and interest in each area of study. A Montana jury has ruled that the Jehovah's Witnesses organization must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church covered up her sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a congregation member. Wildlife officials say a hunter northwest of Choteau shot and killed a female grizzly bear and wounded a cub that was

Lawmakers in Congress have advanced a proposal to strip protections from gray wolves across the contiguous U.S. amid a push by Republicans for broad changes to the Endangered Species Act. Lee Enterprises has reversed its decision to hire Paul McArthur as its new regional publisher for Western Montana. Montana Rail Link officials say about 40 cars of a coal train derailed in south-central Montana, closing the main rail line.

A bill to prevent mining north of Yellowstone National Park cleared a key congressional hurdle Wednesday. Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte ’s ‘Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act’ permanently withdraws mineral rights and bans mining on 30-thousand acres of public lands east of the Paradise Valley.

Attorneys for 18 former eastern Montana athletes want state law changed to eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecuting child sexual abuse charges. A Wyoming man is in custody after Billings police say he led them on a 50-minute pursuit that involved 10 crime scenes, five stolen vehicles and multiple rounds of gunfire. Construction on a long-awaited water treatment facility that will pump and treat toxic water from the Berkeley Pit officially began yesterday in Butte

Vice President Mike Pence is making a second trip to Montana to campaign for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale. Montana State University continues to set enrollment records, with nearly 17,000 students this fall. The Dumas Brothel, the longest operating brothel in the United States when it was shut down in 1982, is again for sale.