Exxon Mobil Corporation has agreed to pay a settlement for a 2011 pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River. The spill fouled an 85-mile stretch of the river starting upstream of Laurel.
The Montana Standard has asked a judge to make negotiations on the Butte Hill Superfund site public after 14 years.
A hearing on a request to move two Montana State Hospital patients held in an intensive treatment unit into the general population has been continued to December.
The Montana attorney general's office says a man has been arrested in an investigation into possible human trafficking.
A Billings pipe company has paid a $350,000 fine for a scheme to defraud the Chippewa Cree Tribe. MT Waterworks pleaded guilty in May to criminal charges that it claimed an Indian ownership preference to get federal and tribal contracts.
A section of the Yellowstone River from Yellowstone National Park downstream to Laurel was closed starting August 19th by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks after thousands of dead mountain whitefish began appearing on the river’s banks.
Supporters of a medical marijuana ballot initiative are asking Montana’s top political cop to penalize the efforts of a group opposing their work. Corin Cates-Carney reports.