On today's morning newscast: the inversion holding heavy smoke over western Montana continues to rob wildfires of oxygen and preventing the sun from heating up ground fuels, helping firefighters make progress on fire lines. Fire information officer Bob MacGregor says the days of lesser activity also get them closer to anticipated fire season-ending weather.
The state of Montana is dropping a lawsuit against telephone provider CenturyLink, after the company agreed to improve the service it provides to rural customers.
Federal prosecutors may seek the death penalty for an 18-year-old man charged with the deaths of a husband and wife who stopped to help offer him help on the side of the road on Montana's Crow Reservation.
Two former executives of a Chippewa Cree Tribe online lending company have been charged with embezzlement and conspiracy.
The estate of a copper heiress has lost a battle to recover over $4 million in donations she gave a New York City hospital where she lives for two decades.
Gallatin County authorities have found the body of a 51-year-old Australian man who had been reported missing.
Montana is withholding payments from a company that botched three states' student assessments until overdue results are released.
It’s expected to be another bad day for air quality across much of the state. Libby yesterday became the first location to enter the “hazardous” air quality category on the state Department of Environmental quality’s air monitoring website.
Missoula officials are disposing of 16,000 cubic yards of mostly tree limbs that were felled by a wind storm.
A wildfire that started in the Benchmark area about 30 miles west of Augusta led to the evacuation of recreational cabins in the Lewis and Clark National Forest.
U.S. and Chinese officials are working on an agreement to advance "clean coal" technologies that purport to reduce the fuel's contribution to climate change - and offer a potential lifeline for an industry that's seen its fortunes fade.