The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure. Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state's high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and dignity protect the right ...

Asarco mines, smelters and other sites to be cleaned up under settlements with federal and state regulators, according to the U.S. Department of Justice: ALABAMA: _Ragland ARKANSAS: _Van Buren ARIZONA: _Flux Mine _Hayden _Helvetia _Sacaton _Trench Mine/Salero CALIFORNIA: _Blue Ledge _Golinsky _Selby COLORADO ...

A Continental Airlines plane en route from New Jersey to Oregon made an unscheduled stop in Montana after encountering engine trouble. Jeff Wadekamper is the assistant manager of the Helena Regional Airport. He says the Continental flight from Newark to Portland, Ore., landed in Helena shortly after 10 p ...