State and university system officials decided it was best to settle accusations that a prominent rape case was mishandled rather than reopen the matter.
Montana State University Billings has received the $760,000 in state funding it was initially denied after the university showed improvements to its degree completion and retention rates.
A conservation group is suing the federal government for the second time in two years for failing to reclassify a small population of grizzly bears as endangered.
A Montana legislative subcommittee has halted its work on the federal Clean Power Plan, following last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision that put the plan on hold.
Newly released documents show the National Right to Work Committee worked directly with select Republican legislative candidates in five states in 2010 to boost their campaigns with a 'deadly effective' voter mailing program. Officials in Montana say that amounted to illegal contributions by a corporation.
Closing arguments begin today in the retrial of a Butte man charged with killing his father in 2008.
Police in Billings have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a man whose body was found in the street last fall.
he Protect Montana Kids Commission meets again today, this time with a new member and an extended deadline for the group’s recommendations on fixing the state’s child protection system.
A bill that would authorize the state’s largest utility to create a fund to pay for the eventual shutdown of two coal-powered electricity plants in Montana easily passed the Washington state Senate on Wednesday.
One of the largest coal mining companies in the Western U.S. is reporting a $205 million loss for 2015 after pinning its hopes for growth on an export market in Asia that has fizzled.