Montana News
Comprehensive coverage of Montana’s statewide news—politics, environment, communities, and culture—delivered with trusted reporting and a local lens.
Judge blocks Election Day voter registration changes
Late voter registration, allowing Montanans to sign up to vote so long as they’re in line before polls officially …
Gianforte sends National Guard to aid in virus response
National Guard soldiers will assist Montana hospitals with their Covid-19 response as the state struggles with a surge in infections, Gov. Greg Gianforte annou…
Great Falls man convicted of using hatchet to kill man
A Great Falls man was convicted Tuesday of using a hatchet to kill another man during a street fight more than three years ago.
Body recovered, half-brother sought around Yellowstone lake
Rescue crews in Yellowstone National Park recovered the body of a 67-year-old Washington state man and searched around a lake Tuesday for his half-brother after the pair failed to return from a backcountry canoe tr…
Woman convicted for role in shooting death during robbery
A Montana woman has been convicted for her role in the fatal shooting of a man during a drug robbery at a motel in Ballantine, a community northeast of Billings.
Sanders County health officer resigns to ease conflict
The public health officer in a politically conservative county in northwestern Montana has resigned his post to ease what his resignation letter called "the st…
UM study explores vaccine hesitancy in Montana
As the delta variant grips the nation, understanding the “why” behind Montanans choosing to get vaccinated — or not — is the topic of a National Institutes of …
What are 'crisis standards of care?'
As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved health care rationing in Idaho and parts of Alas…
Federal land agency moving back to D.C.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation's capital after two years in Colorado, r…
With hands tied, Montana officials issue public health plea
Health officials in both Missoula and Bozeman are begging Montana residents to wear masks indoors and get vaccinated as hospitals face increasing strain and th…
Interior Secretary signs Montana tribes water rights compact
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes water rights compact on Friday, settling a decades-long battle over thousands…
Woman suffers thermal burns in Yellowstone National Park
A 19-year-old Rhode Island woman suffered "significant thermal burns" in Yellowstone National Park and is being treated at the Burn Center at the Eastern Idaho…
Wyoming to ask US to lift Yellowstone grizzly protections
Wyoming will ask the federal government to remove its protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region and permit the region's three states to manage an…
Alert canceled after 15-year-old Montana girl found safe
A 15-year-old girl on Montana's Fort Peck Reservation who was the subject of an Amber Alert for a possible abduction has been found and is safe, authorities said Thursday.
States learning how many Afghan evacuees coming their way
The Biden administration began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators across the country about how many Afghan evacuees from among the first group …
Helena hospital critical care at capacity amid virus surge
A hospital in Helena was forced to implement crisis standards of care amid a surge in Covid-19 patients, hospital officials said Thursday.