On Monday night Missoula's City Council takes up a proposed ordinance that would require criminal background checks on nearly all gun sales in the city, including those between private parties.
The Montana Secretary of State's office says the sponsors of three proposed ballot initiatives may begin gathering signatures in attempt to put them before voters in the 2016 election.
The husband of Alabama author Harper Lee's attorney has been killed in an airplane crash in Montana.
An environmental group is asking a review board to reject a permit that would allow Signal Peak Energy to expand a coal mine in the Bull Mountains.
Local, state and federal regulators have delayed their review of a coal export project along the Columbia River near Longview, Washington.
An Afghan military officer has been arrested on an Amtrak train as it made a refueling stop in Harve.
Forecasters say the continuing warm, dry conditions that have already extended the fire season are expected to last through the winter.
Prosecutors say a man suspected of robbing a Great Falls bank lived in an apartment across the street and paid his overdue rent with $100 bills.
A former pharmacist at the Rocky Boy Health Clinic has pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns in an agreement that in fines and restitution.
Fire investigators say a grass fire northwest of Bozeman was caused by a land owner's vehicle, but prosecutors will not file criminal charges.