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Calls to end intraparty fight mount after bitter GOP primary season
Some Republicans believe results of the legislative primary mean it’s time for the Montana Republican Party to men…
Large Montana ranch sold to subsidiary of Montana resort
A subsidiary of the company that owns the Yellowstone Club bought an 18,000-acre ranch at the foot of the Crazy Mountains east of Clyde Park, and said they hav…
Montana redistricting commission adopts congressional criteria
Montana's five-member redistricting commission voted Friday to formally adopt criteria to guide its work in establishing lines for the state's new congressiona…
Tears, politics and money: School boards become battle zones
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Local school boards around the country are increasingly becoming cauldrons of anger and political division, boiling with disputes over such issues as COVID-19 mask rules, the treatment of tr…
Trail-running man injured in grizzly attack in eastern Idaho
Idaho state wildlife officials say a man was injured after he was attacked by a grizzly bear in eastern Idaho on Friday morning.
Judge dismisses media lawsuit over closed Republican meeting
A Montana judge dismissed a lawsuit by The Associated Press and other media organizations that argued the chairman of a legislative committee illegally held a …
Gianforte ends Montana's climate change coalition membership
Gov. Greg Gianforte has discontinued Montana's membership in a coalition of two dozen states dedicated to fighting climate change.
Bill aims to spend billions to fix nation's aging dams
Lawmakers in Congress on Friday introduced a bill that would pump tens of billions of dollars into fixing and upgrading the country's dams.
Colorado's 1st gray wolf pack since 1940s now has 6 pups
Colorado's first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s has grown to include six pups.
Grizzly shot, killed after fatal attack of California woman
Wildlife officials said they shot and killed a Montana grizzly bear Friday that had pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her earlier this week in…
Montana town of grizzly attack a popular stop for cyclists
A tiny western Montana town where a grizzly bear pulled a woman from her tent and killed her this week welcomes visitors year-round to the mountain valley comm…
Residents of small Idaho town evacuate as wildfire grows
Residents of the small, remote community of Dixie are being evacuated as a wildfire threatens the area, the Idaho County Sheriff's Office said.
Governor fills judicial vacancy amid stalled legal challenge
A District Court judge on Wednesday denied a request to temporarily suspend a law that eliminated the Judicial Nomination Commission and allowed Montana's gove…
Grizzly pulled woman out of her tent in Ovando attack
A grizzly bear pulled a woman from her tent in a small Montana town in the middle of the night and killed her before fellow campers could use bear spray to for…
Woman pleads guilty to accountability in son's beating death
A Montana woman has pleaded guilty to accountability to deliberate homicide in the November 2019 beating death of her 5-year-old son in Great Falls.
Montana man charged with negligent arson, 7 homes burned
A Montana man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges alleging he caused a wildland fire north of Yellowstone National Park that burned seven homes and 46 squa…