State Headlines Articles
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Judge strikes down more Montana election laws
Published: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
HELENA (AP) — A judge has struck down more Montana campaign finance laws in an ongoing challenge that the regulations restrict free speech.U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell ruled Wednesday that...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
State kicks off meetings to gauge bison tolerance
Published: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
MISSOULA (AP) — Dozens of people turned out in Missoula as Montana wildlife officials began a statewide tour to gauge public opinion on the reintroduction of wild bison to public lands.Ran...
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
GOP governor candidates seek support of far right
Published: Sunday, May 13th, 2012
HELENA — The race to court the Republican Party's most conservative voters has prompted two candidates for governor to sign a lengthy "constitutional" pledge that, among other things, promise...
Friday, May 11th, 2012
Montana fire officials turn to Twitter for updates
Published: Friday, May 11th, 2012
HELENA — Fire response coordinators in Montana will use the social media website Twitter this year for the first time as a way to update residents of wildfire developments such as road closures...
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
3 Yellowstone bison captured; hazing next
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
BILLINGS — Government workers are set to begin hazing hundreds of wild bison back into Yellowstone National Park after capturing a small group of the animals for use in a birth control study.Mon...
Shackled Leaf pleads guilty, will go to rehab
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
GREAT FALLS — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he broke into a Montana home and illegally possessed painkillers, part of a deal with prosecutors that recom...
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
2012 wolf hunt: Trapping, no quota among proposals
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
HELENA — Montana officials planning the state's upcoming wolf hunt are considering allowing trapping for the first time and eliminating quotas in an effort to reduce the number of wolves in the...
Leaf reaches plea deal in drug, burglary charges
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
GREAT FALLS — Former Washington State and NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has reached a plea agreement on drug and burglary charges filed in Montana.The Great Falls Tribune reports Leaf's attorney, K...
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Absentee ballots being mailed out Monday
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2012
HELENA — County election officials are mailing nearly 170,000 absentee ballots for the June 5 primary election.Secretary of State Linda McCulloch tells Lee Newspapers of Montana the number of ba...
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
Wolf Point residents bitter over museum reversal
Published: Sunday, May 6th, 2012
WOLF POINT — The sign along U.S. Highway 2 proclaiming Wolf Point the official home of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame has become a bitter reminder to residents of this northeastern Montana town...
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
TransCanada reapplies for oil pipeline
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Canadian company trying to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avoid environmental...
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Interior sets new drilling rules on public land
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals u...
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Governor backs initiative opposing corporate money
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
HELENA — Gov. Brian Schweitzer is backing an initiative that aims to undermine a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision granting constitutional political speech protections to corporations.Schweitzer...
Canadian on death row at Deer Lodge seeks clemency
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
AP Photo/The Missoulian, Michael Gallacher Ronald Smith address the families and friends of Thomas Running Rabbit Jr. and Harvey Mad Man during his clemency hearing Wednesday morningin Powell Co...
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Groups ask judge to toss ban restricting donations
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
HELENA — A broad legal challenge to Montana's campaign finance laws narrowed Wednesday to focus on corporate contributions to political committees, with conservative groups telling a federal ju...
Lawyers say Smith is a changed man
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
HELENA — Lawyers for the only Canadian on death row in the United States told the Montana Parole Board on Wednesday that he deserves clemency because he is a changed man who deserves to live.Ron...
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Feds examine response to Montana sexual assaults
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
MISSOULA — The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the way Missoula police, prosecutors and the University of Montana have responded to reports of sexual assault and harassm...
UM's response to sex assaults scrutinized
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
MISSOULA — A federal prosecutor says the U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil investigation into how Missoula police, prosecutors and the University of Montana respond to sex...
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Feds to eye response to UM sex assaults
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
MISSOULA (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is beginning an investigation into the way police, prosecutors and the University of Montana deal with reports of sexual assaults after complaints tha...
Feds to investigate response to UM sexual assaults
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
MISSOULA (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the way police, prosecutors and the University of Montana handle reports of sexual assault in Missoula. ...
'Three Cups' author was overwhelmed by lawsuit
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
HELENA — "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson says the dismissal of a civil lawsuit that accused him of fabricating book passages to make money for himself and his charity c...
Monday, April 30th, 2012
'Three Cups of Tea' lawsuit rejected
Published: Monday, April 30th, 2012
HELENA — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a civil lawsuit against author Greg Mortenson, calling claims "flimsy and speculative" that the humanitarian and his publisher lied in his best-sel...
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
Windows broken at Rehberg's Billings office
Published: Sunday, April 29th, 2012
BILLINGS (AP) — The state director for Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg says six windows and the glass door at Rehberg's office in Billings were broken early Saturday.Randy Vogel tells the Bi...
BNSF Railway Company plume trial to begin
Published: Sunday, April 29th, 2012
LIVINGSTON (AP) — A trial to determine BNSF Railway Company's responsibilities for cleaning up plumes of fuel and toxic solvents beneath Livingston starts Monday in Great Falls.The trial is set...
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Death penalty sought in Montana teacher's killing
Published: Friday, April 27th, 2012
BILLINGS — Prosecutors on Friday filed murder charges and said they intend to seek the death penalty against two men accused of kidnapping a Montana teacher whose body was discovered after...
