The University of Montana will need to cut its budget by two to two-and-a-half percent in the next fiscal year to reconcile expenses with income.
A U.S. Senate committee has approved a $420 million water rights settlement with Montana's Blackfeet American Indian tribe.
A jury has cleared two former Yellowstone County sheriff's deputies of wrongdoing in the death of a man who they shot as he was driving toward them in a stolen vehicle.
A jury in Montana has heard opening arguments of a Montana woman who is suing a nurse practitioner, a doctor and their respective clinics, saying they failed to order prenatal tests that could have diagnosed her daughter's cystic fibrosis.
A 27-year-old former Butte Central High School band teacher has entered a plea on charges that he sexually assaulted a student and provided alcohol to other students.
Authorities say a convicted felon in Montana assaulted two sheriff's deputies with bear spray.
A man who pleaded guilty to robbing the Gray Wolf Peak Casino and embezzling money from clients of his contracting company has been sentenced 29 years in prison.
Officials from a jail in Hardin that has mostly sat empty since it opened in 2007 are looking to take in prisoners from the overcrowded Yellowstone County jail.
A Montana State Prison inmate who was serving life in prison for shooting a Marine to death during a carjacking has died at a hospital in Missoula.