All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 28 2018 // A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit after a settlement was reached with the Montana hospital accused of paying some of its physicians at above-market rates in exchange for patient referrals to in-house...
Sep 24 2018 // An athletic trainer at a Montana high school sexually abused at least 18 student athletes decades ago under the guise of boosting their athletic performance, according to a newly filed lawsuit.The deception was aided by...
Sep 17 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...
Aug 6 2018 // BNSF Railway has agreed to pay the U.S. government $200,000 and spend up to $750,000 on road repairs to settle claims that the company failed to pay for damages caused by a 2011 train derailment in northwestern Montana,...
Jul 31 2018 // A federal judge is allowing a woman to proceed with a lawsuit that claims the Crow tribe’s nursing home leaders in Montana conspired to fire her for reporting that a patient had been molested. Tammy Wilhite is a...
Jul 20 2018 // A Montana jury has awarded $300,000 to a mother who claimed a Billings youth treatment center failed to protect her son from being sexually abused by other residents.The Billings Gazette reports the jury awarded the...
Jul 3 2018 // A storm that produced as many as five tornadoes destroyed a home and caused other damage in Montana and South Dakota, the National Weather Service confirmed. The NWS estimates one tornado Thursday night had winds over 130...
May 16 2018 // Montana’s Clark Fork River near Missoula is receding after it crested at the highest level in a century and swept trees, trailers and other dangerous debris downstream.Residents aren’t out of danger yet. The...
Apr 30 2018 // The family of a Montana man killed by a drunken driver has reached a settlement with one of the bars they claimed over-served the driver.The Independent Record reports 25-year-old Samuel Tielking died in Helena in February...
Apr 11 2018 // Medical marijuana providers in Montana will start testing, labeling and tracking their products as new rules took effect this week for state officials to keep close tabs on pot plants from seedlings until they’re...
Mar 28 2018 // University of Montana researchers say the 2017 fire season likely cost Montana about $240 million in visitor spending.The Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research said Tuesday that 12.5 million out-of-staters visited...
Mar 26 2018 // A Montana hospital is not liable for the brain injury a 16-year-old Belt High School student suffered in a 2014 football game, a jury has ruled.Robert Back suffered a concussion on Sept. 5, 2014, and collapsed on the...
Mar 9 2018 // A Montana judge says a Nebraska-based insurance company is liable for a $43 million settlement between the state and people sickened by exposure to asbestos from a Libby vermiculite mine.National Indemnity Co. paid $16...
Feb 15 2018 // The Montana Board of Investments approved the transfer of $14.7 million from the Montana State Fund to the state’s firefighting fund by April 1.During a special legislative session in November, lawmakers set a...
Feb 5 2018 // A business coalition is asking a judge to stop state officials from imposing a fee on assets of Montana’s workers’ compensation fund to plug a budget gap. The suit filed in late January in state District Court...
Jan 31 2018 // Attorneys representing victims of sex abuse by priests and other employees of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings in Montana argue parish money being held by the diocese should be available to pay a...
Jan 24 2018 // A business coalition is asking a judge to stop state officials from imposing a fee on assets of Montana’s workers’ compensation fund to plug a budget gap.The suit filed Monday in state District Court in Lake...
Jan 8 2018 // A new report says summer fires cost the state of Montana $240 million in visitor spending.The report by the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism and Recreational Research estimates that tourists spent almost...
Jan 2 2018 // The parents of a former student have filed a federal lawsuit against a western Montana school district, claiming school officials did not protect their daughter from being sexually harassed and assaulted by a teacher.The...