State lawmakers started taking up the challenge of Montana's $282 million budget shortfall in the first of two days of hearings in Helena Wednesday.
Federal wildlife officials say a cat-sized predator that lives in old-growth forests of the Northern Rockies is not in danger of extinction despite worries about habitat loss and accidental trapping.
There has been hours of public testimony in Helena today about the $228 million in state budget cuts Governor Steve Bullock is proposing.
Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee are asking the Interior Department to provide documents on use of private charter flights for government business by Interior secretaries dating to 2009, when former President Barack Obama took office.
A man and woman have pleaded not guilty in the death of two people whose bodies were found in plastic tubs of chemicals in a Montana residence.
Montana wildlife managers have captured a grizzly bear that was eating fruit near homes south of Choteau, and are looking for a second bear that has been looking for food in the town.
A long line of people with disabilities and their care providers crowded the state capitol Wednesday afternoon, each waiting their turn to protest budget cuts proposed to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.