A Butte woman who admitted to trafficking fentanyl pills in the Bozeman area was sentenced this week in Missoula Federal Court to four years in prison.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — State livestock officials are among those investigating after up to two dozen horses were shot dead and dumped in a hay field about a mile west of Lodge Grass on the Crow Indian Reservation.
Schools, a hospital and other public buildings on the Crow Reservation in Montana were on lockdown Tuesday as authorities searched for a suspect in a shooting that left three people dead.
The FBI said agents were on the reservation investigating the deaths.
The Big Horn County sheriff's office says a woman has been arrested in the death of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found in a parked car in Hardin. Coroner Terry Bullis says Jaren Blacksmith died of hyperthermia, or elevated body temperature, on Wednesday as temperatures reached the low 90s in Hardin...
The National Weather Service says more rain is expected Thursday across western Montana, where the ground is already saturated by rain and snowmelt.
The 60-mile stretch of Interstate 90 from Hardin to the Wyoming line reopened Wednesday after being closed for days due to flooding. Officials are now able to move supplies to the community of Lodge Grass, which had been cut off.
Cooler temperatures mixed with rain continue to add high river levels throughout Montana. Temperatures will be cooler this week right through the holiday weekend with two significant rain events expected. According to National Weather Service predictions, the Clark Fork River, above Missoula, could rise above flood stage, while the Blackfoot River near Bonner will see a large increase in flows w
Flood waters have swallowed swaths of Montana farmland and other low lying areas as authorities contend with rising creeks and rivers in the eastern part of the state.
The deluge prompted officials to close a roughly 70-mile stretch of Interstate 90 between Hardin and Ranchester, Wyo.