A 40-acre controlled burn is planned Wednesday around 10 a.m. south of Hamilton and north of Lake Como. Smoke will be especially visible in the Hamilton and Darby areas.
A new ordinance in Missoula would prohibit guns at all polling places, schools, parks, libraries, museums and city council chambers.
A federal judge has dismissed a second-degree murder charge filed against a Lame Deer man after he alleged investigators destroyed evidence that could have implicated another suspect.
1 year agoA man wanted on several warrants in Ravalli County and his female associate were arrested after a high-speed chase that reached speeds over 100 mph.
1 year agoAfter firing multiple shots in the direction of others, a Hamilton man is charged with two counts of felony assault with a weapon.
Bozeman: An MSU student accused of receiving a package in the mail containing research drugs has been charged with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to distribute.
1 year agoThe top five most dangerous intersections in the state of Montana are in Missoula, four of them on Reserve Street.
A 16-year-old Montana boy has died in a single vehicle rollover crash on a gravel road near Helena. Lewis and Clark County Coroner Bryan Backeberg says Logan Guse, of Helena, was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Bozeman woman is being charged with Vehicular Homicide While Under the Influence after a crash back in May. Montana Highway Patrol and the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of a single-car crash around 8 p.m. on Story Mill Rd. on May 21.
1 year agoDropping temperatures mean bears are looking for food before they hibernate. Some of those bears are getting into trouble breaking into cars in Big Sky.
1 year agoFire 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
1 year agoIn 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.
1 year agoA 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.
1 year agoMissoula 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
1 year agoEmergency 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
1 year agoVehicle 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.
