Legislative analysts are telling lawmakers that Montana had about $455 million in reserves at the end of the 2015 fiscal year.
A new pilot course designed to address the shortage in computer programmers in Montana opens Monday.
Montana's insurance commissioner says there will be double-digit rate hikes for health insurance purchased through the online exchange created by President Barack Obama's health law.
Montana lawmakers will explore whether to purchase the privately run Crossroads Correctional Center when the state's 20-year contract with Corrections Corporation of America is up in 2019.
A 26-year-old Great Falls man has pleaded not guilty to deliberate homicide for a fatal shooting that sparked a threeday manhunt north of Helena. Branden Miesmer's trial is scheduled for February 22nd. Miesmer is charged with shooting 26-year-old Cody Bruyere.
The president of the Montana State University student government has resigned after being censured for a DUI arrest in August.
Idaho water officials say they want to expand cloud seeding efforts by taking an aerial approach to coax more snow from winter storms.
The Missoula City Council is considering requiring background checks on gun buyers before all sales, including those between private parties.
State lawmakers and educators are reviewing the state funding formula for education a decade after a lawsuit forced Montana to create the system.
A former firefighter with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes has been given a 20-year suspended sentence with the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to setting several fires on the Flathead Indian Reservation in 2013 and 2014.