All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2013 // Parts of northern and central Montana have seen more rain in the past two weeks than in a normal year, leading the Chippewa Cree Tribe to declare a disaster on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation swamped by widespread...
Jun 6 2013 // A 76-year-old Havre, Mont. man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a case for failing to report that he owned a profitable business while receiving more than $277,000 in federal worker’s compensation benefits from...
Jun 4 2013 // A Montana judge has invalidated Helena’s 2008 fire ordinance restricting exposed wood building materials and requiring fire-resistant roofs on new or extensively renovated buildings.The Independent Record reported...
Jun 4 2013 // Chicago, Ill.-based Hub International Ltd. subsidiary Hub International Mountain States has acquired the assets of Beartooth Insurance Inc. Beartooth is a full-service insurance brokerage firm operating out of offices in...
Jun 3 2013 // Police in Missoula, Mont. say a man who rammed his sport utility vehicle into an insurance office three times in late May was apparently expressing his frustration with the insurance industry. Police say the driver rammed...
May 31 2013 // Montana farmers told U.S. Sen. Max Baucus that planned cuts to the farm bill could make the crop insurance safety net too expensive.Baucus held a round-table discussion with farmers and agricultural groups Wednesday. The...
May 28 2013 // Six lawsuits have been filed against Partnership Health Center in Missoula, Mont. by workers contending they were forced to work off the clock without pay, full-time workers being replaced with part-timers who don’t...
May 20 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has made Montana the 43rd state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. Bullock’s state joined the IIPRC upon his signing of Senate Bill 28. The IIPRC is a...
May 17 2013 // Police in Missoula, Mont. say a man who rammed his sport utility vehicle into an insurance office three times was apparently expressing his frustration with the insurance industry.Police say the driver rammed the building...
May 15 2013 // Paul Grimstad, the chief of staff for the embattled Montana Disaster and Emergency Services, submitted his resignation Monday, an agency spokesman said.Grimstad will leave the agency on June 30, said Maj. Tim Crowe of the...
May 13 2013 // A Billings, Mont. woman has denied drunken driving for an arrest that happened shortly after police escorted her home when they found her riding a horse while intoxicated.The Billings Gazette reported 43-year-old Dawnalee...
May 10 2013 // A federal judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a Winston, Mont. man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live. U.S. District Judge...
May 6 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has made Montana the 43rd state to join the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission. Bullock’s state joined the IIPRC upon his signing of Senate Bill 28. The IIPRC is a...
May 3 2013 // Montana State Fund’s board of directors announced a six percent rate decrease for 2014.The decrease is effective July 1 this year. Since 2007 State Fund has lowered average rates to Montana businesses by 34.5...
May 1 2013 // Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has signed into law a measure that will allow judges to look back 10 years to add penalties for multiple drunken-driving offenders.Attorney General Tim Fox says his bill sponsored by Republican...
Apr 23 2013 // A class-action lawsuit between former workers at Montana Power Co. and the defunct utility has been settled for $1.2 million.The Montana Standard reported that last week Montana Power through a liability insurer agreed to...
Apr 21 2013 // Internal investigators are faulting the Environmental Protection Agency for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos...
Apr 11 2013 // The troubled agency responsible for preparing Montana for emergencies has been beset by lawsuits by former employees, claims of a dysfunctional work environment and now complaints that overly burdensome and shifting...
Apr 5 2013 // Billings, Mont.-based Taylor-Leavitt hired Josh Munro as an account executive. With over a decade of experience in account management and sales, Munro will focus on commercial insurance. Taylor-Leavitt is part of the...
Mar 27 2013 // The Montana agency that responds to natural disasters and emergencies is a dysfunctional, divisive workplace with a climate of fear and the perception of bullying by some managers, according to an internal report conducted...