Montana/Region

Montana teen competes without use of his arms

CORVALLIS (AP) — Stevensville’s Devin McLane had a tough draw in his first high school wrestling tournament on a recent Saturday in Corvallis. Without a varsity record, the freshman was

After deportation from Utah, woman bids goodbye to kids

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan woman who left Utah on deportation orders last Christmas has since made the heart-wrenching decision to send two of her children back to

State moves to expand, preserve Utah’s Tabby Mtn. wildlife area

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Wildlife officials want to expand and preserve the undeveloped area surrounding Utah’s Tabby Mountain. However, Utah’s School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, which oversees the

State names group to regulate crowding on Madison River

BOZEMAN (AP) — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has named 10 people to a negotiated rulemaking committee that’s expected to offer a regulatory proposal for the upper Madison River

Montana State helps local manufacturing collaborative

Montana manufacturing businesses can easily find themselves competing for the same skilled workers locally and for customers and orders on local, national and global scales, according to Alistair Stewart, business

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Utah senator blocks vote on Montana tribe’s recognition HELENA (AP) — A Republican U.S. Senator from Utah blocked a vote on a bill to grant federal recognition to Montana’s Little

Man accused of plotting to kidnap Letterman’s son is freed from prison

GREAT FALLS (AP) — A man once accused of plotting to kidnap retired talk show host David Letterman’s son and nanny has been released from a Montana prison for a

With US appeal, the court battle over grizzly bears will grind on

BILLINGS (AP) — U.S. government attorneys filed notice Friday that they are appealing a court ruling that blocked the first public hunts of grizzly bears in the Northern Rockies in

Community in North Dakota creates own ambulance service

ESMOND, N.D. (AP) — The Esmond community had an ambulance service for 40 years, until a lack of emergency medical technicians caused it to be discontinued. Now, community members are

Former hairdresser makes dreadlocks from sheep’s wool

SUN RIVER (AP) — The vision of rural life that Jennifer Skinner had in California met cold reality on her move to Montana. Animals raised for milking need milked twice