All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2022 // Homeowners of America, a property/casualty insurance provider and subsidiary of Porch Group Inc., launched service in Montana. With the addition of Montana, HOA now operates in 14 states. HOA launched its service in New...
Dec 14 2021 // A former official for a central Montana coal mine plead guilty to conspiring with others to not make required reports about workplace accidents that injured employees, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Montana said.Dale...
Nov 18 2021 // Former Montana women’s basketball coach Shannon Schweyen has sued the university in federal court, alleging she was the victim of sexual discrimination during her employment and when her contract was not renewed.Her...
Sep 28 2021 // Federal investigators are seeking the cause of an Amtrak train derailment near a switch on tracks in the middle of vast farmland in far northern Montana that killed three people and left seven hospitalized over the...
Aug 26 2021 // A federal jury has denied a damage award to the family of a Livingston, Mont., man who was shot and killed by police in January 2016.The estate of Sean Patrick O’Brien filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City...
Aug 13 2021 // Wildfires in Montana threatened rural towns and ranchland while victims of a California blaze returned to their incinerated community, even as the U.S. West faced another round of dangerous weather and smoke pollution...
Aug 11 2021 // California’s largest single wildfire continued growing after destroying nearly 550 homes while authorities in Montana ordered evacuations as a wind-driven blaze roared toward several remote communities.The dangerous...
Aug 3 2021 // A wind-driven wildfire destroyed more than a dozen homes, outbuildings and other structures around northwestern Montana’s Flathead Lake after the flames jumped over a state highway, authorities said.Evacuations had...
Jul 29 2021 // Federal funds are now available to help with firefighting costs for the Poverty Flats Fire burning in Big Horn County and Crow Agency in Montana, FEMA reported.FEMA Acting Regional Administrator Tammy Littrell approved the...
Jul 26 2021 // Five firefighters were injured when a thunderstorm and swirling winds in central Montana blew a lightning-caused wildfire back on them, federal officials said.All five remained in medical facilities and were still being...
Jul 8 2021 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared a drought disaster in 15 additional Montana counties, bringing the number of counties in a declared disaster to 31 of Montana’s 56 counties.The declaration makes farms...
Jul 6 2021 // An employee at a car wash in Helena got caught in a piece of machinery that severed his lower leg, Helena fire officials said.The accident happened just before 1 p.m. Tuesday at Woody’s Car Wash, Assistant Chief of...
Jun 29 2021 // The risk of wildfires is growing with more warm, dry weather in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.The fire danger in Yellowstone is rated as “high” and in Grand Teton it’s “very...
Jun 17 2021 // Authorities warned of extreme wildfire dangers as a sweltering heat wave was forecast to intensify across much of Montana and northern Wyoming on Tuesday after already delivering record high temperatures.National Weather...
Jun 11 2021 // A civil lawsuit between Montana residents and an oil company that dragged on for more than a decade has ended quietly after a judge dismissed the case as a result of a settlement agreement.District Court Judge Katherine...
Jun 2 2021 // A Montana judge has sided with state environmental regulators who are using a law that provides protection from repeat polluters against an Idaho-based mining company and its chief executive.State District Court Judge Mike...
Jun 1 2021 // A south-central Montana man who pleaded no contest to hiring someone to burn down his house for the insurance money so he could pay a debt to the federal government in a drug case has been ordered to pay...
Apr 30 2021 // Dozens of Jamaican citizens recruited to work as cooks, servers and housekeepers at a Montana ski resort for the ultra-rich have reached a $1 million class action settlement over allegations they were discriminated against...
Apr 5 2021 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired Missoula, Mont.-based PayneWest Insurance.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PayneWest will operate as MMA’s Northwest regional hub under Kyle Lingscheit, CEO of...
Apr 5 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s risk management services subsidiary, Gallagher Bassett Services Inc. (GB), has acquired Pleasantville, New York-based Terrier Claims Services Inc. (TCS) and its affiliate, MT...