Slick roads and low visibility from ice and blowing snow are creating hazardous driving conditions across Western Montana at this hour. The final tally for the number of Montanans who signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act by last Friday’s deadline are in, and they’re more than 90 percent of what they were last year. Montana’s unemployment rate has held steady for most of 2017, and November was no exception.

Public health officials are seeing a spike in influenza cases across Montana. Representatives of sex abuse victims are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings as part of a bankruptcy action to ensure church assets are available for those abused by church officials. Montana's congressional delegation may benefit financially under the new federal tax overhaul, but caps on deductions from state and local taxes may largely undo those benefits.

A winter storm hitting northern Montana has forced school closures and caused scattered power outages. The University of Montana Foundation has sold an 18,000-square-foot western Montana lodge that was donated by philanthropist Dennis Washington in 1995. Montana's congressional delegation is asking the U.S. Forest Service to support a conservation easement on about 22,000 acres of private land near the Kootenai National Forest.

A 43-year-old former law enforcement officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Montana has pleaded guilty in a case in which he was accused of coercing a woman into having sex. A Montana judge has sanctioned the state over a yearlong delay in complying with a court demand to turn over documents involving an expert witness in a lawsuit over lethal injections. A federal judge has ruled that ethics complaints filed against elected officials in Montana should be made public.

A wildfire fueled by high winds and dry conditions ripped through Glacier County yesterday, in what experts call an "unusual" occurrence for this time of year. Another fire Sunday destroyed a popular western Montana restaurant. Authorities say the fire at the Nine Mile House located off Highway 10 near the town of Huson (HEW-son) began around 10:30 last night. Missoula is getting more direct flights next summer. American Airlines and the Missoula International Airport announced today that direct

Mental health workers in Missoula say they’re being laid off next month due to state budget cuts made in last month’s special legislative session. Leaders of the Montana Stockgrowers Association told association members about the terms of a deal to sell Montana-raised beef to China's largest online retailer during the organization's annual convention in Billings. Mineral County has named a new sheriff and is working toward re-opening its jail. Motorized oversnow travel in Yellowstone National

A draft Record of Decision for the new forest plan for the 2.4 million acre Flathead National forest was released Thursday. Montana's Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibits mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles convicted of murder, also applies to state cases in which judges used their discretion to hand down the same sentence. The Republicans in Montana’s congressional delegation praised the Federal Communications Commission’s vote Thursday to

Missoula police have a "person of interest" they want to interview after a box containing the bones and teeth of three children was found in the shed of a Missoula home in September. A judge has ordered the continued detention of a Kalispell man whom authorities captured after he fled to Mexico while facing charges of illegally exporting handguns from the United States. More than 25,000 Montanans have now enrolled in health insurance plans through healthcare.gov since the enrollment period

Montana Governor Steve Bullock and 11 other governors from both parties are urging Congress to re-authorize funding for a popular children's health insurance program as soon as possible. Norovirus outbreaks are on the rise in Montana. When you think of winter in Montana, you think lots of snow… not wildfires. But today the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for the eastern part of the state.

Great Falls police officers, searching for a suspect in an earlier incident, fatally shot the man when he brandished a weapon. Federal officials say two polluted sites associated with Montana's copper industry will get heightened attention as the government pushes to complete cleanups that have dragged on more than three decades. Car owners in Montana will pay a little more when it comes time to renew vehicle registrations next year. Montana cherry growers have voted to end a "checkoff" based on