Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte announced his running mate yesterday in East Helena. He selected Phillips County Commissioner Leslie Robinson as his choice for lieutenant governor.
Individuals and organizations seeking to upend Montana's campaign contribution limits say the state can't justify the caps after multiple court decisions raised the standard. State attorneys say the limits prevent corruption as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and later rulings.
Two former leaders of a Chippewa-Cree online lending company have been sentenced to 3 years in prison for stealing money from the company and taking bribes.
A 32 year-old Washington state woman who said she always wanted to try killing someone with her bare hands has pleaded guilty to strangling her boyfriend.
The Montana Department of Transportation says some highway projects could be put on hold because its revenue is expected to fall $25 million short of budget projects.
No more water is leaking from a treated sewage holding pond at Big Sky into the Gallatin River. At least 35-million gallons of the wastewater spilled into the river since last Thursday.
Flathead County prosecutors in the case against a man accused of making online threats to schools and religious leaders have agreed to defer prosecution.
Missoula firefighter Andrew Drobeck won his fifth consecutive title at the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle.