Asbestos

On Monday, the University of Montana officially reopened the doors of McGill Hall that had been closed for over 30 days to clean up asbestos discovered in the building.

An unidentified Missoula man has perished in a mobile home fire west of the city. The fire was reported at about 7:30 last night.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone County has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a case brought by a former courthouse janitor who eventually died of mesothelioma. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1NzxVbk ) the county reached the settlement in November with the estate of Lauren DuPuis, who filed a civil complaint saying he was exposed to asbestos while he worked at the county courthouse a

Federal officials say their final analysis of a Montana community wracked by deadly asbestos contamination shows a costly and much-criticized cleanup is working — even though about 700 properties have yet to be investigated.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Residents of a Montana mining community where thousands have been sickened by asbestos exposure will weigh in this week on a proposal to leave the dangerous material behind in many houses and buildings. The Environmental Protection Agency has spent more than $540 million to date removing asbestos from the neighboring towns of Libby and Troy in northwest Montana...

Reports Tuesday afternoon that an armed man may have been holding hostages in a residence near the University of Montana turned out to be a hoax, according to Missoula and UM police.

A convicted killer and an accomplice from Washington State were nabbed at the Home Depot parking lot last Thursday with a pound of meth. Also: A challenge to allow drilling near Glacier National Park. Controversial clean-up plan for Libby to be announced today...