Flathead County schools have canceled all weekend extracurricular activities at more than 30 schools, due to threats received earlier this week.
The Montana Board of Regents adopted campus operating budgets totaling about $1.55 billion for Fiscal Year 2018, knowing reduced state revenues may lead to cuts.
Glacier National Park has begun stabilization work at the Sperry Chalet dormitory building to prepare for winter.
Rain and snow have slowed down fires across western Montana.
Verizon has sent letters to hundreds of eastern Montana customers in the past few weeks letting them know their service will be terminated.
A legal settlement announced about an hour ago could send $10 million to the town of Colstrip to mitigate impacts from the partial shut down of the huge coal-fired power plant there