On tonight's evening newscast: Governor Steve Bullock today signed on to a joint state and federal plan to provide incentives for farmers and ranchers to preserve sage grouse habitat on their land.
Federal railroad regulators say an oil train that derailed and spilled 35,000 gallons of oil in northeastern Montana was traveling within recommended speeds.
Hunters, a wildlife group and the Bullock administration are hailing the settlement of a decades-old road dispute west of Choteau that restores public access to about 50,000 acres of public land along the Rocky Mountain Front.
Intense drought conditions have shrunk the kernels and disrupted the proteins of winter wheat crops in Montana, and other Northwestern states that produce a fifth of the U.S. harvest.
A 68-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to elder abuse after authorities accused her of cashing a senior citizen's checks totaling more than $48,000 and stealing his cat.
One of the state’s largest farming groups is supporting a voluntary effort to bolster the population of the sage grouse, whose numbers have fallen thirty percent since the mid-80s.
Police are seeking three suspects in a possible shooting that left a Butte man in intensive care with a leg wound and facial injuries.