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A jury awarded $730,000 to a Drummond-area family that sued the state of Montana over backfires set during a 2000 wildfire that burned more than 900 acres of their ranch.

Montana officials expect a normal 2012 after cool weather and spring floods all but eliminated the fire season last year.

At least 200 acres of land were burned near Lincoln when a landowner's controlled burn got out of control.

State fire officials say firefighters are gaining ground on a blaze near Lincoln.

Early morning fire does over $100,000 in damage to the Green Hanger building on Woodford

Officials say two juvenile runaways from Granite County are suspected to have set the fire that destroyed a century-old log barn west of Anaconda over the weekend.

Exxon Mobil officials say a fire broke out at a processing unit in the company's Lockwood refinery.

As further proof that teachers don’t get paid nearly enough, a heroic elementary school teacher recently rescued a toddler from a SUV that had caught fire in the pickup lane at Cameron Ranch Elementary School in Carmichael, CA.

Officials in Miles City say a man who had escaped a house fire died when he went back into the burning building in an unsuccessful effort to rescue his sister.

A fire east of Havre has burned at least an estimated 7,000 acres, but there have been no evacuations. Blaine County Emergency Manager Haley Gustitis tells the Great Falls Tribune the fire was mostly contained Tuesday along the Milk River about 10 miles west of Chinook...