Campaign records show Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale used excess donations from deep-pocketed GOP donors this spring to pay himself back for personal loans from his failed 2014 congressional run. A man who fired shots at authorities near Bozeman yesterday has been arrested. Fire potential is expected to increase Friday in parts of North Central and Southwest Montana, with temperatures reaching into the upper 90s.

Local, state and federal law enforcement officers are searching in the mountains of southwestern Montana today for an armed man who fired shots at officers who tried to pull him over on suspicion of driving under the influence. The state health department plans to close the Child and Family Services office in Livingston, transferring those cases to Bozeman while re-allocating the five caseworker jobs to Billings to help with a large caseload there. Environmental groups seeking to block a

A state district judge has ordered the Montana Green Party off November ballots. The Mount Washburn trails and trailhead parking areas in Yellowstone National Park will be closed for the summer, beginning Thursday. A 65-year-old Whitefish man was stabbed to death and Flathead County officers have arrested his son. This week, federal, state and local public health officials will be in Anaconda to update residents on their plan for studying health concerns related to the Anaconda Smelter Superfund

Records show Montana's new parole board is granting inmates' release sooner after changes were made last year. A Roman Catholic bishop says four Montana priests who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Great Falls as VIPs last week should not have been wearing their clerical garb. Authorities say a 72-year-old Montana man died after his kayak flipped in the Jefferson River.

Two travel bloggers who received jail time after walking on a famous hot spring in Yellowstone National Park were among three people who died yesterday after they went over the third-tallest waterfall in British Columbia. The Montana Commissioner of Higher Education is appealing a judge's order to release redacted student records to author Jon Krakauer. Wildlife officials have captured and killed a grizzly bear in northwestern Montana after concluding that it had become habituated to people and

President Donald Trump’s visit to Great Falls Thursday was a campaign stop that was both political and personal. President Trump’s visit to Great Falls also drew protesters. MTPR’s Nicky Ouellet was on the Expo Park grounds where anti-Trump demonstrators were gathered. Longtime Butte Superfund watchdog Fritz Daily says he’s not particularly surprised that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt abruptly resigned amid various ethics investigations.

Montana wildlife officials have found a new home for three grizzly bear cubs that were orphaned in June when their mother was killed by a vehicle. A Montana judge has overturned the conviction of a man sentenced to 40 years in prison for his 3-month-old son's 2008 death. Montana wildlife officials say a black bear has been killed after it was captured for ripping up a tent in a campground.

A Montana judge has overturned the conviction of a man sentenced to 40 years in prison for his 3-month-old son's 2008 death. Wildland fire officials with the Missoula County Fire Protection Association are joining other jurisdictions in Western Montana, elevating fire danger in Missoula County to moderate. Flags in Montana have been lowered to half-staff in honor of the five people killed in a shooting at a Maryland newspaper last week.

Authorities say one man has been killed and another injured in a shooting on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. A new report by the Bonneville Power Administration and the state of Montana is promoting the state's renewable energy potential. Weather officials say a tractor that was carried away in a tornado last week near the Montana-South Dakota state line has yet to be found.

The U.S. Supreme Court will review a case in which a Crow tribal member and former game warden from Montana is asserting his treaty right to hunt elk in the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming. Two boys who were shot near a Missoula high school last weekend told investigators the suspect asked them if they wanted to buy drugs and asked where he could get drugs. President Donald Trump’s campaign website today confirmed he will appear at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls next Thursday.