A Canadian company says it plans to start construction of the disputed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline running from Canada through the U.S. Midwest in April.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock formally announced he is running for the U.S. Senate, challenging the Republican incumbent.

An Illinois couple’s dog stole the show during his owner’s wedding with his joyful reaction to their nuptial. Angie Blumberg married Jayce Conway at Rainbow Ranch Lodge in Big Sky, Montana, on July 28, NBC affiliate WFLA reported. The couple grew up in the same town and have been best friends since preschool.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears ready to reinvigorate a Montana scholarship program and make it easier to use public money to pay for religious schooling

A Supreme Court that seems more favorable to religion-based discrimination claims is set to hear a case that could make it easier to use public money to pay for religious schooling in many states. The justices will hear arguments Wednesday in a dispute over a Montana scholarship program for private K-12 education that makes donors eligible for up to $150...

Bode and Morgan Miller have welcomed twins. The former Olympic skier, 42, and the professional beach volleyball player, 32, made the happy announcement on TODAY Tuesday that Morgan gave birth Friday to identical twin boys to add to their growing family. The couple revealed on TODAY in August that they were expecting twins. The baby boys are not yet named.

Consumers will have more health insurance choices next year under the much-debated Obama health care law and premiums will dip slightly for many, the Trump administration announced Tuesday. President Donald Trump was elected on a promise to repeal “Obamacare.” But despite his repeated efforts the program has stabilized three years into his administration. That may be short-lived. The administration is...

Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana on Tuesday after officials found what they thought were the remnants of a homemade bomb that exploded, but it turned out to be a plastic bottle filled with nuts and bolts left in the schoolyard. School officials in Helena made the discovery shortly before classes began at Rossiter Elementary School. They blocked off...

The Supreme Court began its election-year term Monday by wrestling over whether states must allow criminal defendants to plead insanity. The one minor surprise when the justices took the bench just after 10 o’clock was the absence of Justice Clarence Thomas. The 71-year-old Thomas was at home, likely with the flu, the court said. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in...

Vaping products, one of the fastest-growing segments of the legal marijuana industry, have taken a hit from consumers as public health experts scramble to determine what’s causing a mysterious and sometimes fatal lung disease among people who use e-cigarettes. The ailment has sickened at least 530 people and killed nine. Some vaped nicotine, but many reported using oil containing THC,...

A Washington State woman was finally reunited with her border collie, who went missing while on vacation in Montana.

After 57 days of searching for their lost Border collie in Montana, a couple from Washington was reunited with their loving Katie. Carole King had quit her job as a postal worker to devote herself to the search for the 7-year-old dog, according to reports. She and her husband Verne first noticed their dog was missing after returning to their...

Bode and Morgan Miller are expecting twins. The former Olympic skier, 41, and the professional beach volleyball player, 32, made the happy announcement on TODAY Monday that they are expecting identical twin boys in the fall to add to their growing family. “Bode from the beginning of our relationship has always said, ‘I want identical twin boys born on my...

Frozen red raspberries from a Washington state farm are being recalled across the western U.S. WinCo Foods says it sold frozen red raspberries manufactured by Rader Farms of Bellingham, Washington, that may be contaminated with norovirus. The 12-ounce packages with a “Best By” date of February 13, 2021, were sold in stores in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon,...

The federal government has chosen a military base in Oklahoma as the location for a new temporary shelter to house migrant children and is considering a customs port in southern New Mexico as another option as existing shelters are overwhelmed. The Office of Refugee Resettlement said Tuesday it’s dealing with a dramatic spike in the number of children crossing the...

The federal government is opening a new mass facility to hold migrant children in Texas and considering detaining hundreds more youths on three military bases around the country, adding a total of 3,000 new beds to the already overtaxed system. The new emergency facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, will hold up to 1,600 teens in a complex that once housed...

You’re gonna need a bigger boat. A close encounter with a hungry shark was caught on camera by boaters in the Florida Keys.

New research says climate change is brewing trouble for the beer industry. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper explains the impact on the cost and taste of beer.

U.S. immigration authorities have arrested a Canadian man who has twice been convicted of trespassing at the California home of model and Kardashian family member Kendall Jenner. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday that John Ford, 38, was arrested earlier this week in the parking lot of an Albuquerque motel after agents received a tip that he was in...

A genealogy database used to match a family’s DNA with evidence found at a 1973 crime scene has led investigators to identify the long-dead suspect in the strangulation killing of a young married couple, a Montana sheriff said Monday. Linda and Clifford Bernhardt, both 24, were killed at their Billings-area home in a case that would stymie investigators for decades.