Four-term Democratic state Rep. Jean Price of Great Falls has died.
Flooding shut down a long stretch of Interstate 90 and covered other roadways across Montana today with the still-frozen ground unable to absorb the rapidly melting snow and ice jams causing water to spill over river banks.
A state-funded preschool program is on a fast track in the state legislature.
A Senate panel has advanced a bill that would use a bed tax to fund the construction of the Montana Heritage Center.
State officials say increased temperatures in a scenic Montana river have likely contributed to the growth of algae blooms considered a nuisance to recreation.
The University of Montana announced today that children enrolled in a campus daycare will return to a building that tested high for asbestos-contaminated surface dust earlier this year.