Latest Montana Headlines
All the headlines from our Montana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
BNSF Settles Suit from Montana Derailment Agreeing to Pay $750K on Repairs
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,...
Judge Allows Suit Against Crow Nursing Home in Montana to Proceed
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...
Montana Jury Awards $300K in Youth Center Sex Abuse Case
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...
Tornadoes Cause Damage in Southeastern Montana
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...
Flooding from Montana River Receding, But is Expected to Rise Again
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...
Family of Montana Man Killed by Drunk Driver Settles Suit With Bar
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...
Montana Marijuana Providers Must Start Testing, Labeling
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...
Wildfires Cost Montana $240M In Visitor Spending, New Research Shows
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...
Jury Rules Montana Hospital Not Liable in Football Player’s Paralysis
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...
Montana Judge Rules Against in Insurer in $43M Asbestos Settlement
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...
Montana Investment Board OKs Transfer of State Fund Money
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...
Coalition of Businesses Challenges Fee on Montana Workers’ Comp Assets
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...
Attorneys Say Montana Diocese Has More Assets for Abuse Settlements
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...
Business Coalition Challenges Fee on Montana Workers’ Comp Assets
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...
Wildfires Cost Montana $240M in Tourist Spending
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...
Montana Suit Claims School Failed to Protect Student From Teacher
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...
Wildfires Cost Montana $240M in Tourist Spending
Dec 27 2017 // A new report says summer fires cost the state of Montana $240 million in visitor spending. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported preliminary date released by the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism and...
Lawsuit Seeks $70M from Montana Diocese for Abuse Victims
Dec 27 2017 // Representatives of sex abuse victims and their survivors are suing a bankrupt Roman Catholic diocese in Montana in an effort to ensure more than $70 million in assets are available for those abused by church officials. The...
$2.1M in Funding For Montana Town’s Tornado Recovery Efforts
Nov 3 2017 // Montana officials say they have secured $2.1 million in federal disaster aid for ongoing cleanup efforts in the town of Baker where a tornado tore up homes, leaving a lake covered in hundreds of tons of debris. The...
Cost of Fighting Montana Wildfires Approach $400M
Oct 2 2017 // The cost of fighting wildfires in Montana is approaching $400 million at the tail end of the state’s worst wildfire season in two decades. To date, wildfires have burned almost 1,900 square miles, slightly more than...
