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Q2 reports the vacancy on the Billings City Council was filled Monday night by applicant Roy Neese. He was selected to fill the seat in Ward 2, vacated by Larry Brewster in late November. Eight applicants submitted their resumes after Brewster announced he was stepping down...

19-year-old Keagan Shearer of Helena is accused of having nude images of underage girls on his phone and faces a felony charge of sexual abuse of children. Shearer has been under adult supervision since March for sexual abuse without consent...

Q2 reports today is the last day Operation: Billings Child will be collecting Christmas gifts for children who would otherwise go without on December 25th. The Billings Kiwanis Club helped start the project in 2013 and several businesses have joined in the effort...

Montanans joined Americans across the nation in honoring fallen veterans on Saturday for National Wreaths Across America Day. In Laurel, folks placed 357 wreaths near headstones at the Yellowstone National Cemetery. Similar ceremonies took place at about 1,400 cemeteries nationwide...

President Donald Trump announced Saturday morning via Twitter that Montana’s Ryan Zinke is out, tweeting “Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year…” Zinke has been the subject of multiple ethics …

A former Miles City athletic trainer has been charged with possession of child pornography. 87-year-old James “Doc” Jensen is implicated in a sophisticated system of sexual abuse. He was arrested Friday at his Miles City home. The arrest was not for the charges in the sex…

On online auction of oil and gas leases by the Bureau of Land Management has landed more than $538,800 in bids this week. The auction held Tuesday offered 23 parcels covering some 12,500 acres (5,058 hectares) in Montana for oil and gas leasing through the competitive online auction...

Tests results on a public water system serving 1,300 residents on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation found evidence of fecal material contamination that exceeded safety standards, government investigators disclosed Thursday. The contamination was found in tests conducted in April...

A hearing has been scheduled to take place in Great Falls involving four states intent upon challenging the federal government’s coal leasing program. Q2 reports the showdown over the future of the nation’s coal leasing program will play out in a federal courtroom tod…

A Montana man charged with negligent homicide in the shooting death of Dr. Eugene Walton the second was arraigned Monday afternoon. Gregg Robert Trude was with Walton in Helena’s old Kmart parking lot, when a gun went off and killed Walton...