Fire officials are reminding homeowners to create home evacuation plans after a recent string of three house fires in three days. Each fire was believed to be caused by heating appliances, with homeowners trying to keep warm in this cold weather.

Crow Agency, Montana shooting at Co Rd 13A: no casualities

In light of recent mass shootings across the country, the Montana State University Police Department has increased its game day security plan, according to MSU Police Chief Frank Parrish.

A Billings man has died after suffering life-threatening injuries in a motorcycle crash on Sunday night. Witnesses told police the motorcyclist was traveling east on Alkali Creek Road when he laid the bike down.

Montana wildlife authorities say a man shot and killed a grizzly bear after it ran out of some brush and bit his adult son's arm.

Missoula man sentenced for shooting fiancee with AK-47

The federal government is trying to figure out how to fund wildfire suppression after a devastating fire season. This year more than $2 billion was spent on thousands of fires across the country. The massive fires are creating a budget crisis for the Forest Service. During the 2017 fire briefing Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says the time to act is now.

Woman died after being hit by a vehicle in Glacier County on Sunday. The name of the woman has not yet been released.

Authorities in the Mission Valley say that a possible threat against students in Ronan was found to be unfounded. Lake County Sheriff Don Bell says that his office received information about a possible threat involving Ronan school students

Emergency Medical Service personnel, REACH Air Medical Services, Helena Regional Airport security, and local firefighters and law enforcement participated in an airport emergency exercise on Thursday.

911 transcript from deadly shooting in Great Falls:

Montana wildfire updates: Cold, wet weather forecast through Friday after which a gradual warming and drying trend will extend into next week. Snow accumulation in the higher elevations from the storm system will have even greater damping effects on fire activity and rehab goals

Vehicle crashes into Missoula house, driver killed

Beaverhead HS resumes classes after loaded guns found at school

Officials ID 2 Cascade County officers involved in shooting robbery suspect

Dillon, Montana shooting at 104 N Pacific St: no casualities

Missoula Fire crews knocked down an apartment fire Sunday afternoon. Sergeant Gordon Schmill with the Missoula Sheriff's Department told NBC Montana no one was inside the apartment at the time and no one was injured, but 2 cats and an iguana died

A person who threatens a school may be charged with intimidation or assault, according to school resource officer Clint Anderson. Anderson has worked with the Bozeman Police Department for the last 10 years. He told NBC Montana felony intimidation carries a maximum of 10 years in jail and up to a $50,000 fine or both.

Some folks near the West Fork fire burning near Libby can go back home.

Authorities say a man was killed when he backed his car off a steep cliff on a dirt mountain road in western Montana. The 32-year-old Lolo man, whose name has not been released, backed off of the Forest Service road near Clinton east of Missoula early Wednesday morning. A 44-year-old East Helena man who was a passenger was hospitalized.

The Pondera County sheriff issued mandatory evacuation orders to residents near the Swift Reservoir in northern Montana due to increased activity on the Strawberry Fire Monday night. Four or five ranch owners and the dam keeper's residence are said to be under evacuation order. There are also pre-evacuation warnings in place for homes along Swift Dam Road toward Dupuyer.

Kalispell: Flathead County Sheriff's Office on Monday released the names of two women, who were killed in a two-car head-on crash on Highway 2 over the weekend. The crash occurred Sunday at about 11:50 a.m. Just north of Glacier International Airport.

Great Falls: Montana man is charged with deliberate homicide after a fight in Great Falls that left a man brain dead. Darionn Tyler Douglas was charged Friday with deliberate homicide or an alternative charge of felony negligent homicide

The Lolo Peak fire burning in Missoula and Ravalli counties grew a little bit Thursday and stands at a little over 49,100 acres burned. The blaze remains 35% contained.

The Rice Ridge fire near Seeley Lake has grown to over 122,800 acres burned. A community meeting to discuss the fire at 6 p.m. on Friday in the Ovando Elementary School Gym at 108 Birch Street.

The Highway 200 Complex fires near Thompson Falls and Plains consumed nearly 19,000 acres

Darionn Tyler Douglas was charged with deliberate homicide, or alternatively negligent homicide, in Great Falls. The person that Douglas is accused of assaulting earlier this week has been declared legally dead, deemed brain-dead yesterday

Missoula: received the following press release from The Missoula Police Department at 8:30 a.m. Friday. As of late afternoon on Thursday, investigators with the Missoula Police Department have connected a video that surfaced on Facebook, to the baseball bat assault that took place in the 600 block of Cregg Lane this past Tuesday Evening

Air quality alerts issued for several Montana counties

More than 1 million acres have burned in Montana this summer; state fire fund drained