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Montana looms large in the 2018 midterm elections, with incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester facing GOP state auditor Matt Rosendale this November, and the majority in the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance. But the first poll in Montana’s lone U...

Q2 reports 34-year-old Bridger Boyd of Big Horn County was arrested and charged Tuesday in Billings with deliberate homicide in connection with the death of a 4-year-old girl. Big Horn County Prosecutor Jay Harris said in a news release that Boyd was arrested by the U...

The Gazette reports that police are still searching for the knife used in the fatal stabbing of 81-year-old former Sheriff William Joy, the father of Billings Councilwoman Denise Joy. The weapon reportedly has a five-and-a-half inch long blade, with a black handle and sheath...

Q2 reports that a rebound in Montana’s tax revenue could lead to reversing $46 million in state budget cuts later this year, according to a legislative report. However, lawmakers said on Monday that the final budget picture won’t be clear until next month...

Q2 reports that a woman and a 3-year-old child were taken to a local hospital after their four-wheeler lost control and ran into a neighbor’s house in Billings Heights late Friday. The child apparently grabbed the accelerator on the vehicle while it was in gear in a driveway...

The Billings Gazette reports that Roundup residents are seeing more signs bearing the names of roofing contractors these days, following a May 31 hailstorm that battered the town’s roofs, windshields, windows, cars and anything else left exposed...

Q2 reports Billings Fire Chief Bill Rash says the department plans to close public areas along the Rims again this year for the Fourth of July. After years of closing the Rims for the holiday, the Billings Fire Department opened the Rims last year again, just as an experiment...

A federal judge in Virginia this week ordered a freeze on all assets of the developer of a massive Billings mansion on the grounds that he defrauded multiple investors of nearly $18 million. 38-year-old Larry Price Jr. allegedly engaged in financial transactions for personal gain while raising money…

The Gazette reports Montana State University Billings will tap former First Interstate CEO Ed Garding as interim head of its College of Business. He’s scheduled to take the new position on July 2nd. According to MSUB, Garding was president and CEO of First Interstate BancSystem for t…

Firefighters continued battling a fire in a commercial building on Moore Lane in Billings’ West End. Smoke poured from the ceiling of the business property Lynnrich Seamless Siding Windows and Doors. Billings first responders were called at 8:40 p...