The Cascade County sheriff says the jail is so overcrowded he is no longer booking people charged with misdemeanors or non-violent offenses.
The latest report on the Highway 37 Fire outside Libby says its size has remained steady at about 51 acres
The Bacon Rind Fire, detected Friday evening above Gallatin Canyon about 20 miles south of Big Sky is now being estimated at 202 acres.
The Bitterroot National Forest is now calling the Reynolds Lake Fire southwest of Darby 35 percent contained, up from 25 percent yesterday.
The Bitterroot also reports a new lightning-caused fire discovered this morning on the West Fork District in Idaho’s Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
Yesterday fire danger was bumped up to Very High by the Missoula County Fire Protection Association.
Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Montana to help Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale raise money for his campaign to oust Democratic incumbent Jon Tester.
A federal judge rejected claims that a long-stalled irrigation dam in Montana would doom a primitive, endangered fish species, prompting federal officials to say today that a contract for the project will be awarded by the end of the year.
Governor Steve Bullock filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department today over the federal government’s decision last week to end the requirement that some tax-exempt groups disclose the identities of their major donors.
Montanans spent more than $2.8 billion on in-state trips last year according to a new report from the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research.
