District Judge Kathy Seeley in 2016 ordered the state Department of Environmental Quality to reconsider the permit for the Rosebud strip mine, which fuels the nearby Colstrip power plant.
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow his office to prosecute a suspect linked by DNA evidence the rape of an eight-year-old child in Billings in 1987.
The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld last month’s ruling that removed five Green Party candidates from the state’s general election ballot this fall. The ruling was signed by five of the court’s seven justices. The order comes just two days before Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton must certify the names on the November ballot for printing...