Montana/Region

Public testimony heard on Medicaid expansion bills

Published on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:00am

HELENA (AP) — Montana lawmakers heard public testimony during an all-day hearing Saturday on two bills with different visions for continuing the state’s Medicaid expansion program that insures nearly one

Montana legislative committee supports nearly $80 million in infrastructure bonding

Published on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 12:00am

HELENA (AP) — A legislative committee is supporting a plan to borrow nearly $80 million to pay for state building projects and maintenance, along with local infrastructure. The House Appropriations

Trooper’s shooting leads to manhunt

Published on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 12:00am

MISSOULA (AP) — A Montana Highway Patrol trooper who was investigating an earlier shooting was himself shot and critically injured early Friday after finding the suspect’s vehicle, leading authorities to

US eases land restrictions meant to protect bird in West

Published on Fri, 03/15/2019 - 12:00am

BILLINGS (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday finalized changes to sweeping federal land use plans for Western States to ease energy industry restrictions in a way officials say will

US moves to lift gray wolf protections

Published on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 12:00am

BILLINGS (AP) — Gray wolves in the U.S. would be stripped of federal protection and subject to hunting and trapping in more states under a proposal released Thursday that declares

US government could pay up to $1,000 to wild horse adopters

Published on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 12:00am

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The federal government could pay up to $1,000 to people who adopt wild horses thanks to a new incentive program aimed at reducing chronic wild horse

Zinke cleared of illegal politicking

Published on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — A government watchdog says former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke didn’t engage in illegal political activity when he went to Pennsylvania about a year ago to announce federal

STATE/REGION SHORTS

Published on Thu, 03/14/2019 - 12:00am

Neo-Nazi website founder says he fears returning to US MISSOULA (AP) — The operator of a leading neo-Nazi website claims it’s too dangerous for him to travel to the U.S.

Trump to present Medal of Honor to late Montana staff sergeant

Published on Wed, 03/13/2019 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army staff sergeant killed in Iraq while trying to subdue a suicide bomber will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for battlefield

Huge storm cancels flights, schools, closes highways

Published on Wed, 03/13/2019 - 12:00am

DENVER (AP) — A late winter storm raged Wednesday in the West and Upper Midwest, with blizzard conditions expected to engulf parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota.