state flag

Uncover the significance behind the flags at half-staff in Great Falls during National Police Week, a tribute to fallen law enforcement heroes.

We watch it fly high over our skies in Helena and on pretty much every flagpole across our state, but do you know how the state flag came to be in Montana?

Montana became a state on November 8, 1889. But did you know the state did not come up with an official state flag for 16-years? Montana did not come up with an official flag until 1905 after the Ninth Legislative Assembly in Montana approved one...