An audit says the Montana Department of Corrections is breaking the law by housing youth and adult offenders in the same facility, and by sending girl offenders out of state.
A Kalispell woman has pleaded guilty in the death of her toddler son more than a year after the child was beaten by her former boyfriend.
A 17-year-old grizzly bear has been relocated in northwest Montana after killing a domestic pig. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say the 524-pound male bear was trapped in the Seventeen Mile Creek area of the Yaak Valley on Thursday and moved to a different area of the Yaak the same day.
The federal government says a lawsuit challenging their authority to deny an oil and gas lease in the Badger Two-Medicine area next to Glacier National Park should not go to trial.
Montana Tech faculty members want to revise the school's "academic dishonesty" policy and undergo safety training after a summer in which they battled organized cheating by dozens of Middle Eastern students.
The man who oversaw Yellowstone National Park during the wildfires that burned across the park in 1988 has died. Bob Barbee was 80.
The University of Montana is holding a clothing and supply drive to benefit residents of the camps protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.
Cascade County officials have identified the Montana City man who drowned after a boating accident on the Missouri River between Helena and Great Falls yesterday.
Officials say a planned study of storms passing through Idaho’s Payette (PAY-yet) mountain range this winter should provide first-of-its-kind data on the physics of cloud seeding. That should enable weather-modification programs to better quantify their results.
The Obama administration is asking a fede ral judge to uphold its decision to block oil and gas drilling on land considered sacred to some tribes in the U.S. and Canada.