State Headlines Articles
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Stapleton, O'Hara pick running mates
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
HELENA (AP) — Two Republicans running for governor in a crowded primary have chosen running mates.Former state Sen. Corey Stapleton says former legislative colleague Bob Keenan of Bigfork has ag...
New lawsuit filed against Great Falls-Billing Catholic diocese
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
HELENA — Ten people have filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, claiming they were sexually abused by priests when they were children.The sex-abuse law...
Lawsuit filed over Jesus statue on public land
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
HELENA — A group of atheists and agnostics argue in a new lawsuit that the U.S. Forest Service needs to boot a statue of Jesus from its mountaintop perch in Montana.The legal challenge filed lat...
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Schweitzer adds ex-labor leader to ethics job
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
HELENA (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer quickly appointed a former labor leader Monday to be the next commissioner over political ethics and campaign complaints, the fourth in the last two yea...
Judge shoots down Schweitzer's line-item vetoes
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
HELENA — A Helena judge said Monday that Gov. Brian Schweitzer's vetoes of some local infrastructure spending were unconstitutional.Schweitzer responded by calling the decision "a sad d...
$1.5M New West deal before insurance commissioner
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
HELENA — State regulators are examining a $1.5 million proposal by an Oregon insurer to take over a portion of Montana's third-largest health insurance company as part of a g...
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
AP Enterprise: Rehberg underreports lobbyist cash
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2012
HELENA — For months, Montana Republican congressman Denny Rehberg has been criticizing U.S. Sen. Jon Tester for being the leading recipient of campaign cash from lobbyists. But it turns out Rehb...
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Bullock: Ennis schools wrongly transferred funds
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2012
HELENA (AP) — The Ennis School District improperly used taxes levied for adult education and transportation to build a $9 million elementary and junior high school, Attorney General Steve...
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Montana suspends plan for multimillion prison
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2012
HELENA — The Montana Department of Corrections on Friday retracted its request for bids to build a new 120-bed medium security prison — just a week after originally saying the new multimil...
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Forest Service says it won't evict Jesus statue
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
HELENA (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says it will re-authorize a permit for a 57-year-old statue of Jesus that had been facing eviction from a northwestern Montana ski resort.The agency f...
Judge: State must release salary data
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
HELENA (AP) — A judge has ordered the Montana Department of Administration to release salary information for 14,000 state employees to a Bozeman-based think tank.Lee Newspapers of Montana...
Monday, January 30th, 2012
"Dirty Jobs" show features cell tower builders
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2012
BILLINGS (AP) — Kevin Reski thought the "Dirty Jobs" staff from the Discovery Channel TV show had made a mistake when they called to ask him about filming an episode with his tower-build...
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Butte judge faces 12 felony dangerous drug charges
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2012
BUTTE (AP) — A Butte justice of the peace who authorities say doctor-shopped to get multiple prescriptions for the painkiller methadone has been charged with 12 felony counts of fraudulent...
Montana State to tear down 'Monopoly houses'
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2012
BOZEMAN (AP) — Montana State University plans to tear down about 55 so-called "Monopoly houses" that for decades housed students."They're just wearing out," said Tom Stump, MSU director of auxil...
Essmann drops out of GOP race for governor
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2012
HELENA — State Sen. Jeff Essmann of Billings said that he is dropping out of the crowded Republican primary, indicating his presence in the race could detract from the GOP effort to take back th...
ND oil field workers strain Montana law enforcement
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2012
BILLINGS (AP) — As thousands of workers and their families move to North Dakota's Bakken oil field in search of jobs, nearby rural Montana communities' resources are being pushed to the li...
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Emails show effort to get GOP ally as ethics chief
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2012
HELENA — Even as Republicans sought the high ground in the ongoing battle over Montana's troubled political practices office, inadvertently released emails show GOP leaders maneuvering to fill...
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Montana wind blows bus off road, downs power lines
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Strong winds caused travel difficulties and power outages across Montana on Wednesday.A combination of gusty winds and slick roads caused a school bus to run off U.S. Hi...
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Baucus to lead tax panel
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Montana’s senior senator announced that today he will hold the first meeting of a special committee tasked with extending benefits that are hoped to help with the economic recovery.
Montana jobless rate down
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
In December, the fourth month in a row, Montana's jobless rate declined.
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Missoula police reviewing rape cases
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
MISSOULA (AP) — The Missoula Police Department has started an internal review of 50 sexual assault cases over the last two years due to concerns city officials have about the way the agency hand...
Butte newspaper finds hidden DUI citations
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
BUTTE (AP) — A Montana newspaper checking court records found seven misdemeanor DUI citations that a city judge hid from the public by attaching notes that said, "Keep out of the paper for secu...
Saturday, January 21st, 2012
Montana says it is prepared if truck drivers strike
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2012
HELENA — A union covering about 300 state Department of Transportation truck drivers in western Montana warned Friday it may strike amid an ongoing dispute over pay freezes, while the state argu...
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Montana regents investigate university sex attacks
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2012
MISSOULA (AP) — The state Board of Regents plans a system-wide look at the way it handles reports of sexual assault after an ongoing investigation uncovered reports of at least five recent...
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
FWP considers using hunters to kill stray bison
Published: Thursday, January 19th, 2012
HELENA — Montana officials gave their initial approval Thursday to a plan that would let hunters kill bison that stray beyond designated areas north of Yellowstone National Park and from the For...
