On today's morning newscast: House Republicans are proposing that some wildfires be treated like federal disasters, an attempt to win broader support for legislation that targets overgrown national forest lands.
Firefighters are now working at least three wildfires in Montana. The newest, discovered Monday is burning about 10 miles north of Thompson Falls.
State officials are taking public comment on the plan to implement Medicaid expansion in Montana.
Gov. Steve Bullock raised considerably less money to fund his re-election this spring than he did in winter. But with $596 thousand in the bank, he's sitting on a half-million dollars more than any other candidate for public office in Montana.
Montana regulators say they'll review a 21 percent electricity rate increase proposed by Montana-Dakota Utilities for almost 21 thousand eastern Montana customers.
Montana university system officials are returning to the state Supreme Court to appeal a district judge's order that it release information on any action the commissioner of higher education took after a University of Montana court recommended the football team's quarterback be expelled over a rape complaint.
A Glendive man is proposing a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana for adults over 21.
Many have abandoned their landline telephones for the convenience of cell phones. But local emergencies, like the 2,000-acre wildfire burning in Bayview, Idaho can expose the limitations of that technology.
Police say a Billings man who was killed in a fireworks accident on July 4 held the tube that launched the mortar-type explosives.
Crews will remove a car from the Missouri River today after a woman drove off a private road into the water and died.
A man who assaulted a former Wall Street Journal and Missoulian reporter, costing him the sight in his left eye, was back in court after missing his sentencing hearing.
A Columbia Falls man has been ordered to pay nearly $46 thousand in restitution for worker's compensation fraud.