Fire crews were taking advantage of cooler, wet weather in battling the Reynolds Creek Fire in Glacier National Park. The fire has burned about 5 square miles of timber, brush and grass in rugged terrain on the north shore of St. Mary Lake since it started on July 21.
The Northern Cheyenne tribe plans additional investigations of cultural sites along the path of a proposed railroad that would open new areas of southeastern Montana to large-scale coal mining.
A judge has scheduled an Oct. 19 trial date on a Nebraska lawsuit aimed at keeping TransCanada Corp. from seizing land to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline. District Judge Mark Kozisek set the date during a hearing yesterday.
Three sets of fraternal twins were born on the same day at a Bozeman hospital - adding up to more than half of the hospital's births that day.
Gov. Steve Bullock has appointed Bob Nystuen of Lakeside to the state Board of Regents, which oversees the Montana university system.
Union workers with expired contracts at Montana's largest mining company will reconsider tonight the same contract they rejected in June.
Police are investigating after a man who died of an apparent gunshot wound was brought to a St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula.
Law enforcement authorities say a 70-year-old Montana man died in a rollover crash Monday in northwest North Dakota.