State officials are exploring ways to respond to a federal mandate to cut carbon dioxide emission rates from Montana's coal-fired power plants 47 percent by 2030.
Scientists say that if increasingly destructive wildfires in the Great Basin can't be stopped the sage grouse population will be cut in half over the next three decades.
A wildfire burning in the central part of Yellowstone National Park continues to grow and has burned about two square miles.
A 27-year-old international student at the University of Montana is charged with sexually assaulting a female student.
A Bozeman man convicted of assaulting a former girlfriend and a police officer is seeking a new trial.
Yellowstone National Park remains on track to have one of its highest annual visitor counts on record.
The park has already surpassed the 3 million mark through August, with four months left in the calendar year.
Federal officials have suspended site investigations and some clean-up work at 10 polluted mining complexes because of conditions similar to those blamed in a massive wastewater blowout from an inactive Colorado gold mine.
Both Montana and Montana State have decided not to add cost of attendance stipends to the scholarships of their student athletes.