The subject of a law enforcement search in the hills north of Helena is now charged with deliberate homicide.
Cascade County prosecutors filed the charge Tuesday against 26-year-old Branden Miesmer, in the death of a man in Great Falls on Sunday.
Until this week the Missoula County Sheriff's office hadn't had an increase in sworn officers in 30 years.
That changed today with the swearing-in of four new deputies, raising the department's total number of deputies to 51.
A study of government health surveys finds half of all U.S. adults now have diabetes or prediabetes.
Federal health officials say more than 48,500 Montana residents have signed up and paid for health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act's federal marketplace.
Police are still searching for a man charged in a Great Falls homicide who may be wandering armed and barefoot, and possibly cold and hungry, in the hills north of Helena.
The owners of a bee farm are offering a $1,000 reward in an effort to recover about 5,000 pounds of honey stolen from their property in Opportunity.