University of Montana President Royce Engstrom is stepping down effective December 31st, as the university continues to face declining enrollments and budget cuts.
An audit of the Office of the State Public Defender found the agency doesn't know how much money criminal defendants owe the agency, and that the office is not trying to collect the money while facing a three and a half million dollar budget shortfall.
Workers who lost their jobs when the Weyerhaeuser Company shuttered its lumber and plywood mills in Columbia Falls are now eligible to apply for federal benefits.
Wildlife officials have identified an elk hunter who was mauled by a grizzly on the Rocky Mountain Front, west of Choteau.
A grizzly bear has been killed in eastern Idaho, and a $6,000 reward is being offered for information leading to whoever is responsible.
Some of the more than one thousand snow geese that landed to rest on the highly acidic water in the Berkeley Pit in Butte have died.