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The Canyon Creek Memory Care Community is seen in Billings, Mont. on Friday, July 10, 2020. The facility that cares for people with dementia and other cognitive issues has seen at least seven deaths since a coronavirus outbreak sickened almost all its residents and many staff members. The Montana memory care facility that didn’t carry out no-cost COVID-19 testing on its residents is reeling from an outbreak that has sickened more than 50 residents and 36 staff. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) RPMB201 RPMB201

July 14, 2020 at 3:25 pm

Care home refused free tests. Now, nearly everyone has virus

Canyon Creek's operator, Koelsch Communities of Olympia, Washington, hasn't directly said why it turned down free testing at the facility, which has seen 55 positive...

FILE – In this Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, one of two “dueling dinosaurs” fossils is displayed in New York. In an ongoing court case over the ownership of the fossils and others worth millions of dollars, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on June 17, 2020, that fossils unearthed on an eastern Montana ranch belong to the owners of the surface estate. (AP Photo/Seth Weinig, File)

June 23, 2020 at 12:02 pm

Court: Montana family owns dinosaur fossils worth millions

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Dinosaur fossils worth millions of dollars unearthed on a Montana ranch belong to the owners of the land’s surface rights, not...

May 21, 2020 at 11:49 am

Court says dinosaur fossils worth millions aren’t minerals

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Dinosaur fossils aren't minerals under state law, a divided Montana Supreme Court said in a ruling Wednesday that has implications in...

Michaela Wolfinger checks out a customer at the The Base Camp on the first day the business is open since the easing of coronavirus-related closures, Monday, April 27, 2020, in Helena, Mont. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP) MTHEL321 MTHEL321

April 27, 2020 at 10:52 pm

In rural U.S., fears of virus seem far away as stores reopen VIEW

ROUNDUP, Mont. — Traffic got a little busier along Main Street, but otherwise, it was hard to tell that coronavirus restrictions were ending in the...

Nation & World

FILE – In this Jan. 10, 2009, file photo, a flock of geese fly past a smokestack at a coal power plant near Emmitt, Kan. The Trump administration is moving to scale back criminal enforcement of a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species. The former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told AP billions of birds could die if the government doesn’t hold companies liable for accidental bird deaths. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) CAER206 CAER206

March 31, 2020 at 10:15 am

Ex-wildlife chief: Trump rule could kill billions of birds VIEW

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — At a former open pit copper mine filled with billions of gallons of toxic water, sirens and loud pops from propane...

Business

February 5, 2020 at 12:12 pm

No sanctions for Montana lawmaker over socialism comments

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The speaker of the Montana House conceded Wednesday that the Legislature will likely do nothing to sanction a Republican state representative...

February 4, 2020 at 8:25 am

Montana lawmaker rejects resigning over socialism comments

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana lawmaker on Monday rejected legislative leaders' call for his resignation over his assertion that the U.S. Constitution allows socialists...

February 3, 2020 at 4:04 pm

Montana House leadership asks lawmaker to resign

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana lawmaker on Monday rejected legislative leaders' call for his resignation over his assertion that the U.S. Constitution allows socialists...

In this undated photo provided by the Anaconda Chamber of Commerce, a bag of mining slag that was available for purchase as a souvenir at the Anaconda Chamber is seen. Environmental regulators have put a halt to a Montana business associationâ€™s sale of sandwich bags of mining waste advertised as a “Bag O’Slag.” Environmental Protection Agency officials overseeing the Superfund site cleanup of pollution from nearly a century of smelting operations in Anaconda came across the potentially toxic tchotchkes for sale by the cityâ€™s chamber of commerce. The slag, a byproduct of smelting copper, contains small amounts of arsenic and lead. (Mary Johnston/Anaconda Chamber of Commerce via AP) FX101 FX101

November 18, 2019 at 10:26 am

‘Gift bags’ of Superfund mine waste are pulled from shelves after EPA warning

HELENA, Mont. — Environmental regulators have put a halt to a Montana business association’s sale of sandwich bags of mining waste advertised as a “Bag...

November 7, 2019 at 11:04 am

Millions at stake in dinosaur fight: Are fossils minerals?

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The discovery of two fossilized dinosaur skeletons intertwined in what looks like a final death match could make a Montana ranching...

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