On tonight's evening newscast: The Forest Service says it's now spending over half of its total budget suppressing wildfires, the first time that's happened in the agency's 110-year history.
A former Flathead county under sheriff escaped injury when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake north of Whitefish, as he was dipping a water bucket to help fight a fire on private property nearby.
Anyone living near the closed Columbia Falls Aluminum Company smelter has a chance tonight to help the Environmental Protection Agency determine whether the plant belongs on the list of sites eligible for “Superfund” cleanup funds.
State officials say 15 percent of Montanans now lack health insurance, that’s down from 20 percent two years ago.
The Flathead County Sheriff’s office has confirmed that a fire is burning in the town of Evergreen.
Fire managers in Glacier National Park are now feeling more confident in perimeter fire lines, allowing them to shift crews to removing hazards near Going to the Sun Road.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has begun its periodic roundup up of horses at the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range along the Montana-Wyoming border.
The U.S. Forest Service has notified a conservation group that Idaho officials won't use a hired hunter to kill wolves in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness this winter.
Family members say it was a standing room only crowd of more than 700, for the funeral of a Pryor couple who was shot to death last week.