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With temperatures again pushing into the 90s on Friday, the Magpie Rock fire burning west of Dixon continued to grow, and remained at 0% contained. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals – potentially excluding areas that species could use in the future. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Search efforts are underway in Glacier National Park for a 68-year-old Columbia Falls man who reportedly did not return from a hike in the Kintla Lake area, in the northwestern part of the park. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

“Very extreme fire behavior was observed. The fire continues to move east/southeast towards Revais Creek,” said an update posted on the Facebook page Thursday morning. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The body found in the Yellowstone River at the Huntley Bridge last Wednesday has been identified. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

New locking trash cans and an electrified fence cap an intensified effort to let bears prowling Highway 12 know they’re not welcome around the popular forest recreation area. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The state’s COVID-19 case tracking website was updated Wednesday morning to show another two deaths in Yellowstone County, bringing the local death total to 25 people and the total statewide to 54. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

A train collided with a semi-truck Tuesday morning in Roosevelt County, killing the driver. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montanans are receiving unsolicited packages of seeds that appear to be from China. The Montana Department of Agriculture is urging residents not to open or plant the potentially invasive seeds. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

A Montana man was hospitalized Tuesday after being mauled by a grizzly bear in an abandoned barn, officials said. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

A man in his 40s in Yellowstone County died of COVID-19 at his home Sunday, RiverStone Health announced Tuesday morning. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The Helena City Commission voted Monday to continue the city’s contract providing school resource officers to its local school district until June 2021 and engage the school district over the next year on a new path forward. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana State University Billings has appointed an interim chancellor, a week after Chancellor Dan Edelman announced he was stepping down due to a medical condition. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Another person in Yellowstone County has died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the county death total to 22, with 18 of those deaths coming since July 6. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Another person in Montana has died of COVID-19, bringing the statewide death total to 47, according to a Monday morning update on the state’s case tracking website. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana has added another 89 new cases of COVID-19, according to testing numbers updated on the state’s case tracking website Sunday using data from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The Northern Cheyenne People’s Camp has transitioned from staffing an emergency response to the outbreak of COVID-19 to providing law enforcement on the reservation. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Hotel, entertainment and recreation businesses in the category continue to recover jobs, but employment remained lower in June than for the same month a year earlier. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Many chanting “Bullock must go,” about 100 people attended a protest of Montana’s mask order Saturday outside the state Capitol before many of them took their message to Gov. Steve Bullock’s home. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana reported its highest daily tally of cases of COVID-19 Saturday at 224 new cases, with the majority confirmed in Gallatin, Big Horn, Missoula and Yellowstone counties. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The secret to success could be a brief trip to the freezer ahead of time. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Yellowstone County’s public health department confirmed Friday that a 15th Canyon Creek Memory Care resident died Thursday at the facility in Billings. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service