Lee Enterprises has shut down the Missoula Independent nearly a year and a half after buying the alternative weekly newspaper.
Montana lawmakers will consider changing how their pay is calculated when they meet in January, which would result in a 69 percent pay raise if approved.
Montana emergency responders and political leaders marked the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks with a ceremony in the state Capitol today.
A former Idaho corrections official has been named the warden of the Montana State Prison. Corrections Director Reginald D. Michael said today that Lynn Guyer will begin his job at the Deer Lodge prison on Oct. 22.
A fire burning in southwestern Montana fire continues to grow. Local, state and federal resources are battling the fire which has burned an estimated 3 square miles of land near the Gallatin County community of Clarkston.
The Trump administration is moving closer to rolling back Obama-era rules intended to reduce oil and gas leaks of methane gas, one of the most potent agents of climate change.
Glacier National Park attendance fell significantly in August as wildfires forced the partial closure of the popular Going-to-the-Sun Road and prompted evacuations along a corridor that runs through the heart of the park.
