Benefis Health System and the Great Falls Development Authority are asking a New Mexico entrepreneur to consider building a private medical school in Great Falls.
High school students in Montana will no longer be required to take the annual "smarter balanced" standardized test. That announcement yesterday from Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau. Students will instead take the ACT.
Donors to a secretive conservative group accused of breaking Montana's campaign laws to influence the 2012 elections include a media mogul, a famous investment broker and leaders from the energy industry.
Yellowstone County has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a case brought by a former courthouse janitor who eventually died of mesothelioma.
The jailed founder of a Montana club for the ultra-rich has filed an emergency petition with a federal court asking for his release ahead of Christmas. Yellowstone Club developer Tim Blixseth has spent more than eight months in a Montana jail under orders from a federal judge.
The Montana Land Board has approved a $126,000 oil and gas lease sale - in North Dakota. It's rare for the state to sell mineral rights outside its borders, but a Kalispell man donated his partial ownership in the land to Montana when he died in 2011. He asked that the proceeds go to a state fishing program.
Terms haven't been disclosed, but wildlife advocates have reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. government in a dispute over an endangered fish in the Yellowstone River. The case involves a proposed irrigation dam and fish bypass northeast of Glendive, near the North Dakota border.
The Park County Sheriff's office has identified the snomobiler killed in an avalanche north of Cooke City Saturday. He was 33-year-old Jason Wald of Bismarck, North Dakota.
Authorities say a Canadian woman has died after her husband lost control of a vehicle in snowy weather on Interstate 15 near Lima.
A man found guilty of trying to frame a Yellowstone County detective for a fire at his parent's home has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
A man found guilty of trying to frame a Yellowstone County detective for a fire at his parent's home has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.