Government investigators are due in Yellowstone National Park tomorrow to look into an employee's claims of sexual exploitation of female workers, and financial misconduct.
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell says his agency is depending on partnerships with states and private organizations to manage 60 million acres in need of restoration because of staff and budget cuts.
Authorities say a man lured two women into a Montana-based sex trafficking scheme, and had just recruited three teenage girls from the Midwest before he was arrested.
Montana wildlife officials have closed wolf hunting for the season in an area north ofYellowstone National Park after hunters exceeded the quota of wolves that can be killed there.
A charitable foundation has established a major endowment with the University of Montana.
Bataan Death March survivor, artist and educator Ben Steele has died in Montana. He was 98 years old.