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Montana environmental regulators issued a mining permit to Tintina Montana Inc. for preparation work on a planned underground copper mine in central Montana, the Department of Environmental Quality said Friday. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Barring any other court action, Ravalli County Elections Administrator Regina Plettenberg said Friday the election will be on November’s general ballot. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

A man in his 60s died at a Yellowstone County hospital Wednesday as a result of COVID-19, RiverStone Health announced Thursday morning. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

I am not a fan of uphill hiking, but if the trail is shady and the view at the end is beautiful, it’s worth it. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Phillips County schools will start later than planned after the county tallied dozens of cases of COVID-19 in a little over a week. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

A Great Falls man has been identified as the person who died in a crash north of Helena on Tuesday. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Another person in Yellowstone County has died of COVID-19, bringing the county death total to 31 people. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

DILLON — The Bear Creek Fire, located in the Lemhi Pass area on the Dillon Ranger District of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, has spread to 1,500 acres. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The state reported adding 97 laboratory-confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, with 1,485 cases active. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Park officials are winding down the search for 68-year-old Barry Trager, who did not return to his vehicle near Kintla Lake in the northwest area of Glacier National Park on July 25. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes have both issued curfews and are on “lockdown” on their reservations amid rapidly rising COVID-19 cases in Big Horn County. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Former Montana State Prison Warden Lynn Guyer left the state corrections agency last month after he said working conditions proved insufferable. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

When Tailyr Irvine applied for funding to tell a story her community on the Flathead Reservation, and Native communities across the country, had been living with for more than a century, she thought she’d maybe get one response to get… Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Billings police are investigating a homicide that occurred Saturday in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen restaurant at the corner of 32nd Street West and King Avenue West. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Another 64 cases of COVID-19 confirmed by testing were announced Sunday morning by the state’s Joint Information Center. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The student is part of a class of 30 from 13 different law enforcement agencies. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana reported an additional 133 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday, with the total number of confirmed cases since March reaching 4,889. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Billings Police are investigating a homicide in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen restaurant at the corner of 32nd Street West and King Avenue West. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

RiverStone Health, Yellowstone County’s public health department, reports two additional COVID-19 related deaths. One death stems from the COVID-19 outbreak at Canyon Creek Memory Care. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Yellowstone County officials have identified two motorcyclists who died 10 hours apart in separate collisions involving deer outside of Billings. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Editor’s note: The mug shot photo accompanying an earlier version of this story was incorrectly sent by the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

A 66-year-old Victor woman drowned Wednesday evening in the Bitterroot River after getting trapped under a log jam. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service