The Obama administration says a sharp increase in royalties paid by companies mining coal from federal lands across the West would trigger only modest reductions in U.S. coal production.
Montana's overcrowded jails and prisons are prompting state officials to take a serious look at the complex issues behind the rising number of arrests, reoffenders, and policies, behind a surge in incarcerations.
Law-enforcement officials are investigating the death of a 20-year-old woman whose body was found in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County this month, after she walked away from a pre-release center in Butte.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs officials have named an interim director for the VA Montana Health Care System.
NorthWestern Energy is warning customers in the Bitterroot Valley of scam calls requesting immediate payment on overdue bills.
The Obama administration is awarding $48 million in grants in 13 states, including Montana, to help farmers and others conserve water and energy, amid drought and climate change.
Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action plan. Mara Silvers sat down with admissions staff at the University of Montana to see how that ruling will play out in the Big Sky state.
55 Montana counties are set to receive over $30 million in so-called PILT funds this fiscal year.
One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders, who bombed Japan during World War II in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, died yesterday in a Missoula hospital.