A Helena attorney wants to change Montana's constitution to explicitly ban non-U.S. citizens from voting in elections, a measure that one immigrant-rights advocate called an attempt to stoke anti-immigration sentiment ahead of midterm elections. The Trump administration said Thursday it is rewriting Obama-era rules governing pollution from oil and gas operations and coal ash dumps, moves that opponents say will significantly weaken protections for human health and the environment. Plans

Montana Resources and the Atlantic Richfield Company are planning to begin pumping and treating the toxic waters of the Berkeley Pit in Butte as soon as the end of this year. That’s five years earlier than planned. Glacier National Park unveiled four options Wednesday night to restore the historic Sperry Chalet dormitory, destroyed by the Sprague Fire in August last year.

The U.S. government has awarded a Bozeman-based Barnard Construction Company a contract worth more than $73 million to design and build replacement fencing along 20 miles of the U.S. and Mexico border in southern New Mexico. The University of Montana has eliminated individual graduation ceremonies for academic departments in favor of two larger ceremonies.

More than two weeks of blizzard conditions in Montana’s northern tribal nations pushed Governor Steve Bullock to sign an executive order today declaring a state of emergency. A central figure in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon has been sentenced to three years and a month in prison, the longest term for anyone convicted in the case. State retirement systems for game wardens, peace officers, and highway patrol officers are not meeting standards set by the Montana

An immigrant rights group says a Montana judge acted illegally when he asked a sheriff's deputy to take away from his court a Mexican-born man who was later detained by federal immigration authorities. An Atlanta-based financial advisory firm has reached a settlement with Montana regulators over the alleged illegal activities of one of the company's former employees in Missoula. A former Montana teacher has denied a charge she had sex with a male student under the age of 16 in early 2015.

A student at Stevensville High School who police say made a threat to harm staff and students was arrested Friday. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has changed a proposed overhaul of his department with a new organizational map that more closely follows state lines instead of the natural boundaries he initially proposed. A political watchdog organization says Secretary Zinke appears to have violated a conflict of interest law by meeting with executives of a Montana firearms company in which he

Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating another illegal release of bison, after the Stephens Creek Facility was broken into sometime last night or early this morning. An overcrowded homeless shelter in Missoula is facing the prospect of having to turn people away for the first time in its forty year history.

At least 96 bison attempting to migrate from Yellowstone National Park into Montana have been captured for potential slaughter under a program meant to shield livestock from disease. The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the state of Wyoming to pay Montana over $38,000 in damages and $67,000 in court costs in a long-running dispute over water rights that affect farmers and ranchers on both sides of the border. Search and rescue teams are still looking for a man who went missing Saturday night after

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office has identified the missing backcountry skier they’ve been searching for since Saturday evening as Dr. Jonathan Scott Torgerson, a 62-old-physician from Columbia Falls who has long practiced in the area. Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton says an 18-year-old Darby High School senior has been arrested on a felony charge after he allegedly made a social media threat toward the school district. Federal officials are offering a $100,000 prize to find a way to

Montana State University faculty members have opened debate on whether to establish an economics research center funded by a five-year grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. Whitefish-native Maggie Voisin is competing at the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea tonight, in the women’s slopestyle skiing event. Hunters killed at least nine infected deer during a pair of special hunts intended to gauge the prevalence of a newly-found wildlife disease in Montana.