A Helena man is charged with using a shotgun to kill his upstairs neighbors at an apartment building.
Coal ash ponds have leaked contaminants into ground and surface water surrounding eastern Montana's Colstrip plant for decades. Three environmental groups have sued the state of Montana for dragging its heels on the clean up effort.
An exhaustive government analysis says that at current prices and mining rates the largest coal reserves in the U.S. will be tapped out in just a few decades. The finding upends conventional wisdom on the lifespan for the nation's top coal-producing region.
Wyoming's Northern Arapaho Tribe has sued the leaders of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, escalating a long-running political dispute between two American Indian tribes that share a reservation.
A federal judge says the founder of a Montana resort for the ultra-rich still will stay in jail after failing to account for millions of dollars from a Mexico property sale made in defiance of a court order.
Yesterday a group opposing Muslim refugees entering the country staged a rally on the Capitol steps in Helena.
Mike Milburn from the state Attorney General's Office says the opening of a crime lab in eastern Montana has been pushed back due to contract negotiations and construction costs.
Glacier National Park has set a new record for the second straight year with more than 2.3 million visitors in 2015.
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