Montana Highway Patrol

The Gazette reports that 33-year-old Douglas Dewitz Jr. of Billings was the sole victim in a fatal, head-on crash on South Frontage Road on Monday evening, according to the Montana Highway Patrol. Dewitz died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries sustained as a result of the crash, according to Yellowstone County Deputy Coroner R...

As part of Montana Attorney General Tim Fox’s AID Montana Initiative, Montana Highway Patrol drug interdiction teams have seized 56 pounds of methamphetamine in just six months of operation.

The Gazette reports Montana Highway Patrol officers found eight pounds of methamphetamine in a spare tire after a traffic stop in Stillwater County in which the driver, 31-year-old Manuel Sanchez Jr., reportedly told officials he’d been visiting Yogi Bear in Yellowstone National Park...

Wrangling over Montana's budget deficit continues as legislators suggest taking money from a prison deal.

Winter weather causes several crashes throughout west central Montana, sending the Montana Highway Patrol scrambling to respond.

The first calls came in to 9-1-1 late Wednesday evening with vehicles sliding off icy roads in the Butte and Kalispell areas, then as the weather front struck the Missoula area, I-90 became a skating rink for the morning commute.

24 year-old Eduardo Lopez appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Monday, charged with negligent homicide and criminal endangerment after driving the wrong way on I-90 last week and allegedly causing the death of a woman in a fiery head-on crash.

After Wednesday’s fiery crash that took the life of a woman on I-90 near the Bonner exit, Eduardo Lopez has been charged with several felonies for driving the wrong way on I-90 and causing the fatal crash.

On Tuesday, Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced the formation of the new Organized Crime Interdiction Team at a press conference in Helena.

Frenchtown Schools Superintendent Randy Cline is in a no-win situation when it comes to Frenchtown School buses traveling on Highway 93 North and South.