Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Troy Downing is scheduled to go to trial less than two weeks before his party’s primary elections in June.
A man convicted of robbing a Bozeman casino twice within the same week in 2016 was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Five feet of wind-drifted snow buried roads in some places, preventing plows from reaching outlier communities like Heart Butte. Some people have been stranded since the weekend after a blizzard moved through the eastern Rocky Mountain front last week.
The Flathead National Forest is now reviewing all the objections to the final draft of its new forest management plan.
The Montana Department of Commerce is creating a new position to promote tourism in Indian Country.