A federal appeals court will hear arguments in the case of a Kalispell woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her new husband to his death from a cliff in Glacier National Park.
HELENA — Montana’s fire season has grown to the second-largest so far this decade after lightning storms last month ignited a rash of fires that spread rapidly amid bone-dry conditions.
Visitors heading to the Grand Canyon lately know they are going to get two things when they arrive: breathtaking views and long waits, whether it is to get into the national park itself or to find a parking spot inside. A few frustrated tourists have even turned around and left.
The state Land Board on Monday approved a proposed lawsuit settlement between Montana and three conservation groups that would protect grizzly bears while still allowing logging in two state forests west of Glacier National Park.
SPOKANE — Rachel Dolezal, a native of Lincoln County, leads the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, teaches African studies to college students and sits on a police oversight commission.
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that a Bigfork man must pay over $618,000 in restitution to a woman whose leg was amputated after a vehicle crash.
A 19-year-old Bigfork man has pleaded guilty to criminal endangerment and drunk-driving charges for rear-ending a school bus that had stopped to drop off students near Polson.
A federal judge has refused to get involved in a fight over water rights between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and nontribal farmers and ranchers on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
State Department of Livestock officials say bird flu has been confirmed in chickens in Judith Basin County less than a week after the disease killed a captive falcon in Columbia Falls.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Renowned jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco — who collaborated with Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and other top singers and musicians of his era — has died at the age of 91, his family said Friday.
Montana counties could lose $20 million — including $9.8 million in Northwest Montana — in federal funding for schools and roads under a spending bill moving through Congress.
