The Roaring Lion fire, burning southwest of Hamilton, is now fifty percent contained.
The U.S. government is suing Montana's largest utility in an attempt to recover more than $485,000 spent fighting a 2010 fire near Canyon Ferry Lake east of Helena.
The backer of a proposed ballot measure to get rid of medical marijuana in Montana says county election officials mishandled thousands of signatures.
Quick thinking by a trio of hikers in the Flathead National Forest may have prevented a forest fire.