Montana News

Today, Montana Senators voted unanimously in support of a bill to change the state's legal definition of rape, removing the requirement of force for a perpetrator to be found guilty.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it’s assessing future management plans for the National Bison Range , including transferring control to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT).

Montana’s child protection system is in dire straits. The number of kids entering foster care has skyrocketed and caseworkers are overwhelmed. Last year, 14 children died across the state despite reports of abuse being made to authorities. A house bill set to be heard on Thursday morning aims to help.

University of Montana President Sheila Stearns presented her mid-year update to faculty and staff today. The address to the standing-room-only crowd of about 300 was peppered with optimistic messages that the university’s best days are ahead of it. But it also contained a sobering reality check.

Legislation introduced Wednesday in the Montana House would require officials to study how renewable energy generators, like solar panels, impact the utility bills of the people who don’t have them. Solar panels can help trim down the utility bill of homeowners, but some say it shifts that cost onto other utility consumers who don’t have personal energy generators on their home. There’s no consensus on that.

The former chairman of the Montana Republican Party says he wants his party’s nomination to replace Congressman Ryan Zinke.

"It is an honor to appear before this esteemed Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources," Congressman Ryan Zinke said Tuesday, kicking off nearly four hours of testimony at his confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Interior in the Donald Trump administration. He answered questions from Democratic and Republican senators, and had this exchange with Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders: Sanders: President-elect Trump has stated in his view that climate change is a, "hoax." Is President

Missoula high school computer science students have developed an app-concept that’s taken top honors in a statewide competition. They now need Montanans to help them advance in a national contest.

Leave your guns at home. That’s the message Whitefish City Manager Chuck Stearns sent to neo-Nazi organizers, who proposed an armed march against the city last month.

A bill introduced Tuesday in the Montana House aims to protect consumers from so called ‘storm chasing’ contractors, who scam homeowners after a natural disaster.