All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2019 // A Montana Senate committee has revived a bill to strengthen DUI laws by including it in a budget companion bill.The DUI bill, requested by Attorney General Tim Fox, was tabled by a House committee. Republican Sen. Keith...
Apr 16 2019 // Montana’s insurance commissioner says a Tennessee man is peddling unauthorized car insurance policies.Commissioner Matthew Rosendale sent a cease-and-desist letter last week to Mervin Graber of Whiteville, Tenn.,...
Apr 12 2019 // U.S. officials have removed part of a Montana asbestos cleanup site from its Superfund list in the latest sign that the 17-year cleanup is ending, though the asbestos-related health problems for thousands of people...
Apr 11 2019 // An earthquake that struck Tuesday in a rural area near the Idaho-Montana border was felt as far away as Helena and was followed by multiple aftershocks, but no damage was immediately reported.The main quake struck just...
Apr 7 2019 // Holly Wagner has joined Leavitt Group at its Montana offices as an insurance advisor. Wagner brings over 30 years of experience encompassing captives/alternative risk, large commercial, and risk management consulting. She...
Apr 1 2019 // A state House committee has rejected a bill that would have legalized recreational marijuana use in Montana.The Independent Record reported that the House Taxation Committee voted 12-6 last week to table House Bill 770,...
Feb 19 2019 // The city of Billings has settled a lawsuit filed by a man whose rotator cuff was torn when a police officer tackled him, wrongly identifying him as a crime suspect.The Billings Gazette reports that Robert Bassett will...
Feb 4 2019 // Montana parents are demanding more information about high levels of asbestos found in a University of Montana building that housed a preschool.The Missoulian reports that the university moved the preschool students to...
Jan 16 2019 // A Bozeman hospital has paid out $10 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused its radiology department of fraud.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported that recently unsealed court documents show Bozeman Health...
Jan 3 2019 // The family of a fallen miner is among those in Montana trying to collect more than $5 million from a coal company that’s working through bankruptcy proceedings.Also trying to collect are county governments, and...
Dec 3 2018 // Forecasters have issued warnings of potential avalanches across the Rocky Mountains as early winter snows and ongoing storms bring on the risk of fatal accidents. Dangerous conditions were highlighted by officials over the...
Nov 27 2018 // Homes in wildfire-prone areas around the U.S. could be built to better withstand blazes without increasing the cost of construction, according to a new report.The research released Tuesday was sponsored in part by the...
Nov 13 2018 // A wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Montana whitewater rafting company has been settled out of court.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported that the suit was settled mid-trial last week for an undisclosed amount. In...
Nov 13 2018 // A federal court jury has awarded a Montana man more than $2.1 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit against BNSF Railway following an on-the-job injury.Zachary Wooten, of Columbia Falls, sued BNSF alleging the company...
Nov 9 2018 // A man who fought for more than a decade to maintain his rights to a mining claim in northwestern Montana died two days after a jury awarded him nearly $2.6 million.A Lincoln County jury awarded the money to Arnold Bakie...
Nov 5 2018 // A western Montana school district has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed school officials did not adequately protect a student from being harassed and groped by a music teacher.KTMF-TV reported the...
Oct 25 2018 // Brenda Austin was worried when her son, Casey, told her he planned to work in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield in early 2013.“Don’t worry. I’ll be in a safe spot,” he told her when he left their...
Oct 15 2018 // Rapid population growth and the desire to live near forests means new housing in western Montana is being built in wildfire-prone areas, increasing taxpayer-funded fire suppression liabilities and putting lives and...
Oct 8 2018 // The houses and yards and businesses are cleaned up. The so-called stigma of Superfund designation is fast fading. The Cabinet Mountains and the crystalline waters of the Kootenai River beckon visitors and even new...
Oct 1 2018 // A Montana photographer is suing Netflix, alleging the company violated copyright law by using one of his photos without permission to create storm images for the series “Stranger Things” and the movie...