Montana Highway Patrol

Attorney General Tim Fox, head of the Montana Highway Patrol, spoke with KGVO News for the first time since Trooper Wade Palmer was critically wounded last Thursday night.

Personnel from the Missoula Division of the Montana Highway Patrol are in Salt Lake City, Utah to provide support for wounded trooper Wade Palmer and his family.

"Keep the focus on the victims: Wade Palmer, Shelley Hayes, Casey Blanchard, Julie Blanchard. We won't be sharing his photo; we won't be writing his name. We encourage you to join us in sharing photos of the victims & uplifting stories about them."

On Monday’s Talk Back radio talk show, Colonel Tom Butler, Commander of the Montana Highway Patrol shared news about the condition of Trooper Wade Palmer who was critically wounded by gunfire Thursday night near Evaro.

29 year-old Jonathan Bertsch is in the Missoula County Jail charged with one count of deliberate homicide and three counts of attempted deliberate homicide after a shooting spree late Thursday night that began in Missoula and ended near Evaro.

The Montana Highway Patrol Trooper who was critically injured Thursday night near Evaro, Wade Palmer, was honored in 2015 along with then cadet T.J. Templeton with the Medal of Valor after his heroic rescue of a woman and her family on I-90 in 2014.

Thanks to social media outlets like Twitter, we get a chance to gain some insight from the men and women on the front lines. If you get the chance- follow the Montana Highway Patrol's newest "tweeting trooper" Calvin Jimmerson.

During the summer of 2018, troopers with the Montana Highway Patrol conducted a public opinion survey to let the agency know how it is perceived by residents and visitors traveling through the state,

I first viewed this video over a year ago, and the memory still haunts me today.

Q2 reports that Montana Highway Patrol is investigating a motor vehicle crash that occurred east of Wolf Point early Wednesday morning in Roosevelt County. The crash, which resulted in at least one fatality, was reported at 5:21 a.m. on Montana Highway 13 at mile marker 3...