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 …
Montanans with weak immune systems eligible for 3rd vaccine dose
An estimated 22,000 Montana residents with weakened immune systems are eligible to receive third doses of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines, the…
Record Yellowstone tourism but timed entry plan not imminent
Yellowstone National Park won't implement a timed-entry system at least in the next year but it's possible eventually, the park's superintendent said.
Montana communities evacuated as wind pushes wildfire
Authorities ordered evacuations on Tuesday among remote communities in north-central Montana as strong winds propelled a large wildfire toward inhabited areas.
Pay raises for many federal firefighters to begin next week
After years of demanding better pay, many federal firefighters will receive modest raises next week as the Biden administration makes good on a pledge to ensur…
Montana investigation: Death in police shooting was suicide
The man who died in an officer-involved shooting last week in Missoula died by suicide after a police chase, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation rep…
Attorney general blocks prosecution in concealed carry case
The office of Attorney General Austin Knudsen asked a county attorney to dismiss two concealed-carry charges filed against a Helena man accused of assaulting e…
Have vaccines, will travel: On the road with a COVID entrepreneur
While many businesses in this southwestern Montana "ghost town" reel in tourists with its mining and Wild West vigilante past, one businessman arrived offering…
Fueled by winds, largest wildfire moves near California city
Firefighters faced dangerously windy weather Tuesday as they struggled to keep the nation's largest wildfire from moving toward a Northern California city and …
Blackfeet Tribe issues mask rule as virus spreads in Montana
The Blackfeet Reservation east of Glacier National Park reinstated a mask mandate on Monday after 18 cases of COVID-19 were identified in recent days.
Planned Parenthood sues Montana over new abortion laws
Planned Parenthood of Montana filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block four new laws restricting access to abortion in the state before they take effect.
Labor shortage hits Montana's home health care market
Over the past 28 years, Delphine Camarillo has assisted dozens of people in the Billings area with some of the most routine aspects of their daily lives. She's…
California fire threatens homes as blazes burn across West
Thousands of Northern California homes were threatened Sunday by the nation's largest wildfire and officials warned the danger of new blazes erupting across th…
Despite obstacles, Native Americans have nation's highest COVID-19 vaccination rate
For the first several months of the pandemic, the residents of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation were spared by their seclusion in the plains of northern Mon…
Fight in Butte leaves 1 man dead, 1 detained
A fight between two men in Butte ended with one dead and the other in custody, authorities said.
Does Gov. Gianforte have a plan for climate change?
Between an expansive drought bringing rivers and soil moisture to alarmingly low levels, a series of heat waves that have set scores of temperature records acr…