Montana/Region

Gov. Steve Bullock and state of Montana reach deal over security detail payments

Published on Wed, 07/17/2019 - 12:00am

HELENA (AP) — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has reached a deal with Attorney General Tim Fox to keep a Montana Highway Patrol security detail with him when he travels out

Man may soon be exonerated of decades-old murder

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A judge is expected to decide Wednesday whether to exonerate an Idaho man who spent two decades behind bars for the murder of Angie Dodge

STATE SHORTS

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

Montana former undersheriff pleads no contest to gun theft GREAT FALLS. (AP) — A former Montana undersheriff has entered a no contest plea to a charge he took department firearms

GOP: Land agency is moving West, closer to its territory

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

DENVER (AP) — Some Westerners have long complained the U.S. government is an absentee landlord, managing vast tracts of public lands in their states from the nation’s capital instead of

REGION SHORTS

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

Nebraska woman arrested, fined for climbing Mount Rushmore RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A Nebraska woman has been fined $1,000 for climbing the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.

Judge recommends $14M award to neo-Nazi trolling victim

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

HELENA (AP) — The publisher of a neo-Nazi website should have to pay the victim of an internet trolling campaign over $14 million and remove all posts that encouraged his

IN BRIEF

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

Tornado touches down in North Dakota city MOTT, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a tornado caused some damage in the southwestern North Dakota town of Mott. KXMB-TV reports the tornado

Man killed at immigration detention center

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say an armed man who threw incendiary devices at an immigration detention center in Washington state died of multiple gunshot wounds after four police officers

Cloud Peak Energy hires laid-off miners

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Dozens of coal miners who were put out of work by Blackjewel’s bankruptcy have been hired by another bankrupt mining company in Wyoming, company officials said.

Parade of Democratic candidates speak at Montana convention

Published on Mon, 07/15/2019 - 12:00am

HELENA (AP) — A parade of Montana Democratic candidates made their opening arguments Saturday on how they can hold onto the governor’s office and win back lost ground in a