Montana Governor Steve Bullock was chosen as vice chair of the National Governors Association during its summer meeting last week in Rhode Island.
Montana's chief political watchdog says the chairman of Montana Public Service Commission broke ethics laws when he used office resources to write a column that disparaged a candidate for the regulatory body in last year's election.
A company that has a Boeing 747 bomber that can drop more than 19,000 gallons of retardant on wildfires says federal officials are keeping it grounded and that puts homes and ground based firefighters at risk.
