The Latest Breaking News from Montana

Authorities say about 25 train cars have derailed in northwestern Montana

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It’s expensive to pollute the water in Colorado. The state’s median fine for companies caught violating the federal Clean Water Act is over US$30,000, and violators can be charged much more. In Montana, however, most violators get barely a slap on the wrist – the median fine there is $300.

A Montana photographer has shared footage of dozens of bison stampeding toward Yellowstone National Park after apparently being targeted by hunters.

PHILIPSBURG, Mont. — Water samples taken from the drinking fountain the station replaced had a lead concentration of 10 parts per billion — twice Montana’s legal limit for schools of 5 parts per billion for the toxic metal.

From Keila Szpaller (Daily Montanan): In January, Daria Danley sued MSU, its president and director of the Office of Institutional Equity, along with the commissioner of higher education. Danley argued a no-contact order MSU had imposed on her without an end date or due process infringed on her rights. In…

BUTTE, Mont. — Jennifer Mitchell remembered getting a call nearly two years ago that her 69-year-old husband, Bill, had crashed his car and had been committed to the Montana State Hospital, the state-run psychiatric hospital for adults about 20 miles from their home in Butte.

Matt Rosendale of Montana says he unwittingly posed for picture: ‘I absolutely condemn and have zero tolerance for hate groups, hate speech and violence’

Three workers have been injured in a collapse at an underground coal mine in southern Montana with a history of safety violations