As of Friday, July 2, 2021, Montana reported 113,873 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 56 new cases reported in the last day: 13 new cases in Flathead County, 10 new cases in Yellowstone County, 6 new cases in Missoula County, 6 new cases in Cascade County, and more new cases in 14 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 386. Currently, 56 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. That’s five more hospitalizations since yesterday. The most active cases are in Yellowstone, Cascade, Flathead, and Missoula Counties. 1,666 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 605,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 33,700,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

Legal experts say the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer are in serious legal jeopardy. A 15-count indictment charges the Trump company and longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg with tax fraud, scheming to defraud, and falsifying records. Weisselberg was also hit with a grand larceny charge.

Yellowstone National Park has enacted Stage 1 fire restrictions park-wide as fire danger shifted from high to very high. In Yellowstone, all charcoal and wood campfires at backcountry sites are prohibited, including fires in designated fire rings. Fireworks are prohibited.

Huckleberry pickers found human remains near an Interstate 90 rest area near Superior in northwestern Montana near the Idaho border that may be those of a couple missing since late 2017. An investigator with the Montana Department of Criminal Investigation determined there were two sets of bones.

Montana state and federal wildlife authorities are seeking the person or people responsible for decapitating and de-clawing a grizzly bear that may have drowned and washed up on a gravel bar in the Yellowstone River north of Gardiner in mid-June.