Montana Governor Steve Bullock has ordered flags be flown at half-staff today though sunset February 19 out of respect for the victims and their families of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. After state health department officials announced they would end all contracts with private companies that help people with developmental disabilities the agency is changing course. Now the department says it will offer one contract, for the entire state. The

Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Troy Downing is scheduled to go to trial less than two weeks before his party’s primary elections in June. A man convicted of robbing a Bozeman casino twice within the same week in 2016 was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Five feet of wind-drifted snow buried roads in some places, preventing plows from reaching outlier communities like Heart Butte. Some people have been stranded since the weekend after a blizzard moved through the eastern Rocky Mountain front

Montana's increased fuel taxes raised 6.2 million dollars for road and bridge projects for cities and counties in its first four months. The public will get an update on the polluted Smurfit-Stone paper mill site near Frenchtown tonight at 7:00. A federal judge has granted a motion allowing two people who say they were sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest in Absarokee in the 1970s and 80s to move forward with their complaints in state court.

More than 800 people came to hear the five Democrats running to be their party’s candidate for Montana’s U.S. House seat at the University of Montana Thursday night. Facial bone fragments and teeth of three children found in a Missoula shed last fall are more than 99 years old, ruling out any connection to recent missing children's cases, officials said today. A new health care provider has been selected to serve the Native American population in Billings after the previous clinic shut down

Montana wildlife officials are recommending against a grizzly bear hunt in 2018 after the animals lost their federal protections across a three-state region around Yellowstone National Park. The publisher of a notorious neo-Nazi website has until next week to notify a federal magistrate of his whereabouts as part of a lawsuit accusing him of orchestrating an anti-Semitic internet trolling campaign against a Montana family. An arctic cold front is pushing into western Montana, bringing with it a

A U.S. Senate subcommittee took up two bills on Montana wilderness today - one would protect more wilderness, the other would remove wilderness study protections. The father of three missing Michigan brothers says teeth and bone fragments found in September in Missoula don't belong to them. A jury has found a Missoula man guilty of sex trafficking charges after authorities said he lured women and girls into the commercial sex trade and then bullied and abused them so they'd keep working for him.

Authorities have identified the Montana officer and the man he fatally shot last week. The U.S. Attorney for Montana, Kurt Alme, has been named to the U.S. Attorney General's Advisory Committee and appointed as vice chairman of the Native American Issues Subcommittee. A Great Falls man has been sentenced to five years with the Department of Corrections for negligent homicide in the March 2016 death of his wife. The Montana Veterans Affairs Health Care System has hired a dentist to reopen its

A Montana businessman whose U.S. Senate campaign is chaired by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s wife has outspent and out-raised his Republican opponents by pumping $650,000 of his own money into the race. Senator Tester is courting the women’s vote, saying all issues are women’s issues. The Democrat spoke at the launch of the group calling itself “Women for Tester” Saturday in Bozeman. Negotiations between the state and companies that help people with developmental disabilities seem to be at a

The former University of Montana women's soccer coach says he's upset with the way university officials portrayed the reason for his departure earlier this week. A western Montana pain doctor who was convicted of prescribing drugs to two patients who died of overdoses has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Hardin School District canceled classes Friday while law enforcement officers searched for a teen who reportedly threatened a fellow student with a gun to steal his lunch money last

The Montana health department faced blistering public comment today on their plan to cut more than twelve million dollars from Medicaid services. Two Democrats seeking the nomination for Montana's sole U.S. House seat have far outraised the rest of a crowded field vying to challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte.