On today's morning newscast: technology entrepreneur Greg Gianforte has filed paperwork that says he is exploring a run for Montana governor in 2016.
So many wildfires are burning across the Northern Rockies that fire officials are allowing some to burn because all the manpower and equipment is committed elsewhere. The Northern Rockies Coordination Center lists 86 active fires in Montana and Idaho as of yesterday morning. Seven in Montana are listed as unstaffed due to a lack of resources.
Four Montana National Guard helicopters may soon the statewide firefighting effort. Governor Bullock’s emergency declaration on Sunday opened the door for the National Guard to be called up.
The nation's only platinum and palladium mine says it will lay off 119 employees and put into effect a contract that union workers have rejected twice.
Three conservation groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop an expansion of Signal Peak Energy's Bull Mountain coal mine in Montana.
U.S. government officials plan to decide this fall whether to move ahead with lifting the suspension of an energy lease on land sacred to Native Americans or to cancel it.
A committee appointed to oversee the implementation of Medicaid expansion in Montana has started its work by hearing from state officials who say they're moving so fast they don't expect the rollout to be perfect.
A 59-year-old Eureka man who was reported missing after failing to return from a day hike in the Swan Lake area has been found dead.
Police in Great Falls are searching for an 18-month-old girl who was taken by her non-custodial mother. The Justice Department issued a missing and endangered person advisory for Izellia Wojtowich. Izellia is Native American; 2 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs about 25 pounds. She has brown hair and eyes.
The parents of a Big Sky boy say incorrect autopsy results led to an unnecessary and painful investigation into the cause of their 6-year-old son's death.