A federal appeals court has upheld the government's ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders.
Federal officials say retrofitting Montana's largest coal-fired power plant to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions would cost at least 1.2 billion dollars.
A Montana man who was charged with raping a woman, while he was free on bond awaiting sentencing for raping a child, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Firefighters in Yellowstone National Park are now actively fighting a large wildfire that has been burning for the last three weeks.
Recent weather has been mostly good for firefighters in western Montana, but has also sparked a few new small fires, and made air quality worse.