A lawsuit that challenges Green Party candidates’ appearance on election ballots later this year will stay in state court after a federal judge refused to pick up the case.
The weekend’s cold front dropped a lot of rain over western Montana and sent the Clark Fork into a minor flood stage by mid-morning Sunday.
A federal judge has rejected a request by the Montana Green Party to hear the state Democratic Party's case to remove the Green Party from the 2018 election ballot. District Judge Kathy Seeley will now ask one of her fellow judges to preside over the case.
Environmental groups have launched a court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.
The University of Montana's Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research found that almost 12 and a half million people visited the Treasure State in 2017, and that the state raked in more than $30 million in lodging tax revenue.
Flooding caused by snowmelt and rain has spread to western and central Montana.
Authorities say 17 people have been arrested on drug and gun charges under an initiative targeting an increase in violent crime in southeastern Montana that's blamed on the drug methamphetamine.
Montana wildlife officials say a calf-killing grizzly bear near Bynum was killed and another was trapped and moved for attacking sheep outside Pendroy.
