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Familiar names vie for Libby county commissioner seat
Libby area Republicans will pick between two men with plenty of previous experience as local elected officials to …
More residents carry concealed weapons
BOZEMAN — The number of Montana residents with concealed weapons permits has more than doubled since 2008.
Deer disease leads to limitations
GREAT FALLS — Deer hunters in five north-central Montana hunting districts between Great Falls and the Canadian border won’t be allowed to use their general deer license to take antlerless deer.
Latest Shutdown casualty: Prime hunting area
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When pheasant hunters take to the fields of South Dakota this weekend to renew a treasured rite of autumn, they’ll have less land to do it on thanks to the federal government shutdown.
Bakken oil field drug bust nets a dozen
BILLINGS — A dozen people have been indicted on federal charges alleging they were involved in a ring that distributed methamphetamine in the Bakken oil patch along the North Dakota border, and in other cities and …
Roadkill permits? Yes, there will be an app for that
HELENA — Salvaging roadkill for the dinner table is not only legal starting this month in Montana, but state officials plan to let drivers who accidentally kill big game to simply print out permits at home that all…
Glacier ranger, 93, is oldest in system
KINTLA LAKE — With a can of bear spray on his hip and hearing aids in both ears, Lyle Ruterbories whistles and hums as he tends to this patch of wilderness alo…
Snafus affect registration in early stages of Obamacare
HELENA — Before Tuesday’s launch, Montana insurers and state officials weren’t exactly sure what would happen when a key component of the nation’s new health c…
Bride accused in killing her groom pleads not guilty
MISSOULA — A newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband off a cliff to his death in Glacier National Park after having second thoughts about her marriage pl…
USFS: Shutdown forces agency to stop logging operations
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Forest Service has confirmed it is shutting down logging operations on national forests across the country due to the partial shutdown of the federal government.
Top teachers support Common Core
HELENA — A group of past winners of the teacher of the year award are coming out in support of the new Common Core education standards, and the state says it is asking for a federal testing waiver for the new syste…
State water meetings get under way
GREAT FALLS — Montana officials hope to gather comments on the upper and lower Missouri River on Monday during the first of several public meetings as they develop a state water plan.
Crime moves, road kill among new laws
HELENA — A list of new laws taking effect this week includes a way to test drivers who might be under the influence of marijuana and new permits to allow Monta…
Trial to examine reclusive copper heiress' will to begin
NEW YORK — She had wealth few could boast and used it to finance a life few would choose — an heiress to the fortune of the founder of Las Vegas spending 20 ye…
Butte: An old mining town fills with elite business leaders
HELENA — Butte, a mining town almost a century removed from its heyday, is the unlikely landing spot this week for some of the business world’s biggest names.
Shooter kills 13 at Navy shipyard
WASHINGTON — An employee at a defense contractor used his pass to get into the Washington Navy Yard and went on a deadly shooting rampage Monday, spraying bullets in the hallways and firing from a balcony on worke…