Crime

Members of law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana spoke about gun violence at an event in Billings this week.

A report commissioned by the MacArthur Foundation explores justice system inequities that cause Native Americans to be incarcerated at much higher rates than the general population. State data showed that Native people make up about 7% of Montana’s population but are at least 20% of the state prison population.

Montana lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday on a bill that would provide $61,000 of the state’s money to pay for a grant program for training local, community-led teams to help coordinate searches for missing persons.

Calls reporting an active shooter situation were made to dispatchers in Billings, Colstrip, Forsyth, Manhattan, Miles City and Red Lodge as well as Cascade, Madison and Gallatin counties

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte held a roundtable in Billings last week to talk about public safety challenges and solutions.

Last June, the Crow Nation created a new police department. Then, five months later, that department shut down with little notice as to why. MTPR’s...

Violent crime in Montana’s most populated county has been on the rise since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Reports police say a majority of the increase in violent crime is connected to drug use.

Authorities in Billings say members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force this week killed a man wanted for arrest in a Colorado homicide.The six unnamed…

Missoula County deputies are searching for a suspect in a shooting that left a man in critical condition. The victim was found lying in the road in the...

Missoula police still have no conclusive evidence that a city patrol car was actually shot last week. The ongoing investigation is raising more...