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Montana voters will be able to register to vote on Election Day, judge rules
A Montana judge has blocked the state from limiting voter registration on Election Day, concluding the move would …
Suspected drug dealer sentenced to six years
Prosecutors say Timothy Leo Vleisides, 64, admitted to receiving methamphetamine via mail every other month for about two years when authorities arrested him in 2021.
Logan Health awards Healthy Classrooms grants
Logan Health's Foundation and School-Based Services awarded $500 grants to 16 educators at Flathead Valley schools this October.
POWDR already in charge of Holland Lake Lodge, lawyers allege
POWDR, a Utah company identified as future owner of Holland Lake Lodge, is already in control of the Swan Valley resort, allege a couple of lawyers who are opponents of a lodge expansion proposal in a memo and revi…
Coroner: Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds
Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house Sunday were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep, a county coroner tol…
Roundup for Safety supports gun safety effort
The Roundup for Safety Board awarded $17,321 in community safety grants to nonprofits at its Nov. 10 meeting, including a $3,000 grant requested by the Nate Chute Foundation (NCF) for gun-safety locks.
Suspect in box cutter attack pleads guilty
Brockton Ferguson, 36, made the acknowledgment after pleading guilty to felony aggravated assault for the April 5 attack in Kalispell.
Knudsen, Tester simultaneously publicize efforts to curb fentanyl abuse
As Attorney General Austin Knudsen unveiled Thursday his latest effort to prevent fentanyl abuse in Montana, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester highlighted efforts in the Senate to make it easier to detect the opioid along the s…
West Glacier Vision Plan goes before county commissioners
Commissioners will consider a resolution of intent to adopt the plan. The public comment portion meeting begins at 8:45 a.m.
Early risers catch glimpse of meteor streaking across morning sky
Early risers Thursday morning may have caught a glimpse of a spectacular fireball seen from Missoula to north of Calgary at 6:26 a.m.
Glacier Park may require reservations for Two Medicine, Many Glacier valleys next summer
Glacier National Park will require reservations for the Many Glacier and Two Medicine valleys in the summer of 2023. That’s in addition to the reservation requ…
Foot found in Yellowstone hot pool ID'd as that of LA man
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A foot found floating in a Yellowstone National Park hot pool last summer belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los Angeles…
Knudsen elected vice chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen was elected vice chair of the Republican Attorney General Association (RAGA), a national political advocacy group, over the weekend.
Court order on wolf hunting gives conservation groups partial victory
A Lewis and Clark County District Court judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order truncating the size and scope of wolf hunting season in response…
FEC retires largest capital credit in co-op's history
At their October meeting, FEC’s board of trustees retired $3 million of capital credits allocated to member accounts in 2008 and an additional $5 million of capital credits allocated in 2021 — the largest capital c…
Reproductive rights groups say the rejection of LR-131 is a bellwether for future abortion legislation in Montana.
When Dr. Timothy Mitchell, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Missoula, read the bill behind Montana’s LR-131, the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, he said, he was motivated for the first time in his medical …