Montana News

The National Weather Service in Glasgow on Friday said a supercell storm went through Glasgow on Wednesday and severe weather continued Wednesday and Thursday throughout in northeastern and eastern Montana.

Montana's economic outlook is grim, but it could be, and has been much worse. This was the message delivered Thursday in Kalispell during a mid-year economic update presented by the Montana Chamber Foundation along with the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research.

Grizzly bear recovery coordinator says young bears could be placed in a zoo. Wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly bear Friday after DNA tests confirmed that the sow and her cubs were responsible for a triple mauling that killed a Michigan man and injured two other campers.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor sat in with a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Billings to hear oral arguments in three Montana cases.

Last August, the church wide assembly of a specific Lutheran denomination - the Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America, or ELCA - made a decision that is still affecting individual congregations nearly a year later.

"Friends: I cannot very well just say my friends of Montana, because in this group there are men and women of a great many States of the Union.

Through the windshield of Mike Cuffe's 1923 Model T are Bill Mullens of Spokane, Wash., and Segio Hernandez from Bella Garden, Calif., during the 2010 Montana 500, a 500 mile endurance run across the state.

Colstrip: The dangerous coal plant in Montana that provides Oregon power. By Robin Everett of Portland, Oregon.

The predictions for the 2010 fire season in the state call for 'a fast and furious but short' season.

A hospital spokeswoman says the condition of a woman injured in a tornado in northeastern Montana has improved and her outlook is favorable.

A man accused of brutally beating another man near Morony Dam faced a judge Thursday afternoon.

At least one bear rampaged through a heavily occupied campground Wednesday near Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the night, killing one person and injuring two others during a terrifying attack that forced people to hide in their cars as an animal tore through tents.

State wildlife officials remind landowners, hikers, anglers, OHV riders and others in the outdoors that they can use the Internet this summer to help monitor Montana wolves.

KALISPELL - The Montana Highway Patrol has released the name of the 34-year-old Plains woman who was killed in a one-vehicle crash on Montana 200 near Paradise .

" Montanans with pre-existing conditions who are seeking affordable health benefits are encouraged to contact the Montana Comprehensive Health Association about the Montana Affordable Care plan, a new federal high risk health insurance pool program that is part of the federal health care reform law.

A program that seeks to get men who violate conditions of their probation or parole "back on track," rather than returning them to prison, has opened a new facility in Anaconda.

HELENA - A new report says Montana has one of the highest high school dropout rates in the country.

Sheridan County officials have declared a disaster emergency in the wake of one of the most powerful and deadly tornadoes to touch down in Montana.

At least one bear rampaged through a campground Wednesday near Yellowstone National Park in the middle of the night, killing one person and injuring two others during a terrifying attack that forced people to hide in their cars as the animal tore through tents.

Montana wildlife officials say one person was killed and two others were injured in a bear attack at a campground north of Yellowstone National Park.