Firefighters are now battling a new fire in Glacier National Park. The roughly 500-acre incident was spotted yesterday afternoon in the Thompson creek drainage. The Missoulian newspaper reports it’s burning about a mile southeast of Mount Thompson, east of Lake McDonald.
A man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he started a wildfire in the Helena National Forrest last month. The Independent Record reports that court documents say the morning of July 21 Robert Norman was seen leaving the area where the fire started near Cabin Gulch off of U.S. Highway 12 about 14 miles east of Townsend.
The federal government’s controversial coal program is the subject of a public listen session in Billings Tuesday. It’s the first of four planned throughout the heart of American coal country. The Department of Interior is encouraging the public to enter the fray.
Mineral County Sheriff Tom Bauer says one of his deputies shot and killed a man who ignored orders to stop his vehicle and instead swerved toward the officer.
A child was hurt when a saddle bronc horse kicked a steel gate during a rodeo in Cascade.
Visitation in Montana state parks continues to increase and is on track to set another record this year. So far through June visitation was up 21 percent over the same period in 2014.
A Jackson Hole, WY newspaper is reporting Yellowstone National Park rangers have captured a grizzly bear that may killed a man. The victim's body was found Friday near Lake Village after he went hiking alone off-trail without carrying bear spray.
Montana's largest landowner is proposing a new exchange with the Bureau of Land Management after a previous deal was opposed by hunters. Farris Wilks and his brother, Dan, have proposed to give 5,200 acres to the BLM in return for 4,900 acres of BLM land.
A trial is scheduled for a 74-year-old Libby man charged with shooting and killing another man in his house and not reporting the death for 18 hours.