Montana/Region

Senate panel hears of Native American women’s deaths, disappearances

WASHINGTON — The sister of a missing Blackfeet woman in Montana expressed frustration Wednesday over law enforcement's initial response to her loved one's disappearance, telling U.S. senators that numerous Native

Dec. 13 Montana News Briefs

Man illegally lives in deployed service member’s home BUTTE (AP) — A Montana man was sentenced to 15 years in the state prison for squatting in the home of a

Montana court strikes down a scholarship tax-credit program

HELENA (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a state-run program that gives tax credits to people who donate to privateschool scholarships, saying the program violates a

Oil pipeline foes look past regulators after another loss

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Opponents of Enbridge Energy’s proposed Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement are turning their attention to fighting the project on other fronts after a Minnesota

4 states sue to stop US public lands coal sales

BILLINGS — Four states that say burning coal will hurt their residents as it makes climate change worse are trying to stop the Trump administration from selling vast reserves of

Dec. 12 Regional News Briefs

States ask court to stop Trump from reviving US coal sales BILLINGS (AP) — Four states with climate change worries are due in a U.S. courtroom in Montana this week

Montana court overrules the attorney general on easements

HELENA (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled Attorney General Tim Fox’s legal opinion that the governor can’t unilaterally approve large conservation easements and they must instead be

Washington state combats collisions with new wildlife bridge

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. (AP) — Before descending the Cascade Mountains on its final stretch to Seattle, Interstate 90 cuts through a mountain pass of old growth forests and wetlands. For

Heitkamp bids farewell to US Senate after losing re-election

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp bid an emotional farewell to the U.S. Senate, telling colleagues that “gridlock and partisanship does not have to rule the day.”

Plan would keep about 1,000 grizzlies in northwest Montana

BILLINGS — Montana wildlife commissioners adopted a grizzly bear conservation plan Monday that would maintain the largest population of the bruins in the Lower 48 at roughly current numbers even