Montana has approved rules for potential grizzly bear hunts ahead of a decision by the U.S. government to remove federal protections for grizzlies in and around Yellowstone National Park.
Montana’s Medicaid expansion has brought $75 million in federal money to the state since January, state officials said Wednesday.
The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will keep the number of wolves that can be hunted or trapped just north of Yellowstone National Park to two.
Montana’s congressional delegation is taking a wait and see approach to a proposal to transfer management of the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
A measure that seeks to expand the availability of medical marijuana in Montana has qualified for the November ballot.
A civil rights complaint has been filed on behalf of 31 Native Americans who say they were illegally rounded up off the streets of Wolf Point prior to a rodeo and parade in 2013.
A coroner's inquest is scheduled to begin today in Dillon to determine if a Beaverhead County sheriff's deputy was justified in shooting a Dillon man during a traffic stop last November.
An environmental group has filed a federal lawsuit contending that 26 dams operating in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana are harming bull trout and violating the Endangered Species Act.