The wife of a Montana Highway Patrol trooper wounded while investigating a fatal shooting says her husband suffered three gunshot wounds and is currently in a medically induced coma at a Utah hospital.
One person was killed in a head-on collision Wednesday afternoon just east of Missoula.
Police in Bozeman are investigating an apparent murder/suicide after the bodies of a man and a woman were found in a residence on the northwest side of the city.
A bill that would fund Montana drug treatment courts by taxing opioids is moving through the legislature.
A judge has blocked oil and gas drilling on almost 500 square miles in Wyoming and says U.S. officials must consider climate change impacts more broadly as they lease huge swaths of public land for energy exploration.
Montana's election administrators are asking lawmakers to allow them to open and begin counting absentee ballots earlier because the number of mailed-in ballots continues to increase.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have told Montana’s congressional delegation and the U.S. Department of Interior that it wants management of the National Bison Range restored to the tribes.
