On today's morning newscast: authorities were evacuating homes yesterday as a fire burned in Evergreen. Flathead County Undersheriff Dave Leib tells the Flathead Beacon that five structures burned in Wednesday's grass fire.
A former Flathead County undersheriff escaped injury when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake north of Whitefish as he was dipping a water bucket to help fight a fire on private property nearby.
The Forest Service says it's now spending over half of its total budget suppressing wildfires. That's the first time that's happened in the agency's 110-year history.
Yellowstone County officials say a man whose body was found at the site of a 50-acre fire north of Laurel may have been trying to put out the fire when he was overcome.
A special jury that had convened for an inquest into the May shooting death of a teenager at the hands of his friend has found the shooter committed justifiable homicide. Seventeen-year-old Seth Culver shot and killed 15-year-old MacKeon Schulte when the younger boy knocked on his bedroom window late at night.
Members of armed groups that call themselves constitutional advocates have arrived in Lincoln to support an owner at odds with the U.S. Forest Service over a federal mining claim.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Helena is encouraging American Indian tribes to do more to reintegrate tribal inmates into reservation communities after they're released.
State officials say 15 percent of Montanans lack health insurance, down from 20 percent two years ago.
Governor Steve Bullock told Native American business leaders meeting in Billings yesterday the state is doing what it can to address chronic unemployment and boost entrepreneurship.
Albino deer sightings are increasing in an area about 85 miles north of Billings, between Roundup and Melstone.
Anyone living near the closed Columbia Falls Aluminum Company smelter had a chance last night to help the Environmental Protection Agency determine whether the plant belongs on the list of sites eligible for “Superfund” cleanup funds.
A cleanup effort on lower Silver Bow Creek is now complete with the removal of 5.8 million cubic yards of tailings and contaminated dirt. The Montana Standard reports Montana's Department of Environmental Quality diverted 26 miles of the creek to begin work on the streambed and bank with the support of the Environmental Protection Agency. Gov. Steve Bullock and other officials toured the area yesterday.