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The state Board of Regents reached an employment contract with the new Montana State University president that calls for a $280,000 annual salary, plus benefits, the state Board of Regents said Friday.

Two Bozeman men have been arrested on probation violations after police said they tried to pawn a truckload of stolen items to bail a friend out of jail.

An attorney says a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a con artist who attempted to take over a Montana jail, after the man failed to show up for a court hearing in California.

A Boston-based investment firm has agreed to pay $1.3 million in restitution to Montana investors for a Ponzi scheme run by an independent broker in Kalispell.

Montana this month issued its first license for an industrial hemp-growing operation to a woman who said she wants to develop a domestic market for the plant despite federal law barring its cultivation.

HELENA - The Montana Human Rights Bureau is dismissing a complaint of discrimination against Native American inmates at the private Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby.

Climate change is here. It's already influencing economic decisions and conditions across the world.

HELENA - Montana is redesigning its basic license plate design for the first time in five years, and is looking at a retro-inspired design that harkens back to the plates of the 1970s and earlier.

Latest Montana news, sports, business and entertainment: BANK FRAUD-SENTENCE Former Montana bank executive sentenced for fraud BILLINGS, Mont.

Jason Christ lit a bowl of homegrown marijuana outside the Great Falls Civic Center, not worried that the police station was right around the corner.

Traffic moves south on U.S. Highway 93 around Flathead Lake. Photo by Lido Vizzutti of the Flathead Beacon .

Greater health resources are now available to rural Montanans through a new website.

This is quite a time to be taking over an economic development group in Northwest Montana.

An Amtrak report released Friday said the possible revival of the North Coast Hiawatha Route through southern Montana could attract nearly 360,000 riders a year, but startup costs are estimated at $1.043 billion.

Officials in the rural town of Hardin say they've received new interest in their empty, 464-bed jail in the wake of collapsed deal with a California company run by a man with a history of fraud.

A western artist and old friend of Charlie Russell is taking the spotlight at the C.M.Russell Museum beginning today.

A federal judge has overturned water quality rules for southeastern Montana that were approved by the Environmental Protection Agency, then assailed by the natural gas industry as a threat to drilling.

When the Montana Supreme Court yesterday upheld a lesbian mom's right to custody over two children she shared with a partner, the 6-1 decision didn't just secure a gay parent's rights to see her kids, but set a new tone in the state's high court: gays are equal, and the law must treat them as such.

Authorities are looking for a small airplane that took off from Wyoming but did not land at its final destination in southern Montana.

Posted: Tuesday, 13 October 2009 4:18PM Montana's Attorney General Suspends Investigation into American Private Police Force Cyndy Koures Montana's Attorney General has called off his investigation into a private security company linked to the Hardin Detention Center.

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For years, Ty Thompson came up just short of being judged the fastest, smoothest mouth in the world.

A Kalispell man, who declined to give his name, waves a Creativity Movement flag Oct.

Watching the House of Representatives on late-night C-SPAN, you might have any number of reactions, including seppuku-inducing boredom.

The Montana supreme court has ruled in favor of a lesbian who sued her former partner for parental rights of the children they helped raise together.

The Idaho Ground Water Appropriators filed a nine-page mitigation plan with the Idaho Department of Water Resources on Wednesday that contained provisions for conducting aquifer-recharging projects, voluntarily drying up land and converting land to use surface water as methods for providing water to senior water rights holders.

Watching the House of Representatives on late-night C-SPAN, you might have any number of reactions, including seppuku-inducing boredom.

Summer barely left Montana before winter weather barreled in. A foot of snow has fallen in Red Lodge and the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for south-central Montana.

Montana will receive its first shipment from the limited national supply of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine this week, Department of Public Health and Human Services officials announced on Monday.

It wasn't an intentional secret but more than 600 citizens from cities, small towns and ranches across Montana volunteered for sea duty in the American Merchant Marine.

The Portal serves as the primary source for locating Montana GIS data. The GIS Portal can be viewed at http://gisportal.msl.mt.gov . GIS software allows users to create and analyze digital map data to leverage the fundamental principle of geography - that location is an important factor to consider when making decisions.

Latest Montana news, sports, business and entertainment:... Latest Montana news, sports, business and entertainment: MONTANA POWER LAWSUIT $115M settlement reached in Montana Power case BUTTE, Mont.

If you're brushing your teeth with Colgate toothpaste, there's a chance you're supporting local farmers, in a roundabout kind of way.

HELENA - A lawsuit challenging federal gun control in Montana was filed in U.S. District Court Thursday.

Montana and five other states here in the Rockies have had the highest percentage of uninsured children in America.