The Montana Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.

Here’s a look at Sept. 15, 2026, results for each game:

Winning Mega Millions numbers from Sept. 15 drawing

27-36-43-57-58, Mega Ball: 16

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Winning Big Sky Bonus numbers from Sept. 15 drawing

14-15-20-25, Bonus: 06

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Winning Millionaire for Life numbers from Sept. 15 drawing

05-06-14-36-38, Bonus: 03

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When are the Montana Lottery drawings held?

• Powerball: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
• Mega Millions: 9 p.m. MT on Tuesday and Friday.
• Lucky For Life: 8:38 p.m. MT daily.
• Lotto America: 9 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
• Big Sky Bonus: 7:30 p.m. MT daily.
• Powerball Double Play: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
• Montana Cash: 8 p.m. MT on Wednesday and Saturday.
• Millionaire for Life: 9:15 p.m. MT daily.

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Dogs of all shapes, sizes and speeds are putting their paws to the test this weekend as FAST CAT takes over South Park at Montana ExpoPark.

Watch some fast dogs in action:

FAST CAT brings four-legged athletes to Montana ExpoPark

Hosted by the Electric City Kennel Club, FAST CAT gives dogs a chance to do something many of them already love — run.

“The dog’s going to come out. They get to run a 100-yard dash in tracing a plastic bag,” Kennel Club FAST CAT Trial Lead Shannon DeMarco said.

During each run, dogs chase a mechanically operated lure down a 100-yard course, giving them the opportunity to show off their speed while doing something that comes naturally.

For DeMarco, that’s a big part of what makes the sport so enjoyable for both the dogs and their owners.

“It’s the one sport these guys can do that. They just get to be dogs. They get to have fun and I love it,” DeMarco said.

And FAST CAT isn’t only for a certain breed or size of dog.

“Large dogs. Small dogs. Doesn’t matter. Mix breeds, purebreds. We can run them all,” DeMarco said.

People interested in seeing how their own dog does can participate in $10 fun runs. Official FAST CAT runs are $25.

Money raised through the event helps the Electric City Kennel Club continue hosting activities for dogs and their owners in the Great Falls area.

“Most of the money we receive goes back into the event so we can hold bigger events, fun events,” DeMarco said.

FAST CAT is just one of several activities the club has expanded into in recent years.

“The Electric City Kennel Club started as a purebred dog group,” DeMarco said. “In the last two years we got started with agility. We’ve got FAST CAT, we’ve got scent work, we’ve got temperament testing, and we’ve also got farm dogs. So our club does so many things.”

Through those activities, club members hope to give people more opportunities to get involved with their dogs while also introducing the Great Falls community to different canine sports and activities.

“Our club does a lot of events out in the public to try to get people to do other things with their dogs and just get the public involved,” DeMarco said. “We would love to see more people join.”

FAST CAT continues Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at South Park at Montana ExpoPark.

Whether your dog is a competitive canine, has a serious case of the zoomies or you just want to watch some speedy pups race, there will be plenty of four-legged athletes to cheer on.

For more information about the Electric City Kennel Club, visit their website here.

Artificial intelligence remains front and center in political and public discourse, and as leaders in the industry call for more guardrails, NBC Montana caught up with a local expert who says the general public is largely in the dark about what tech giants are seeing behind closed doors.

Doug Brinkerhoff, an associate professor at the University of Montana’s computer science department, teaches courses about the technology, known as large learning models or LLMs.

“These machines are basically trained on a big collection of text to figure out what the most probably thing to say next is. That’s fundamentally how they work,” said Brinkerhoff.

Now, Brinkerhoff says you can assign multiple LLMs to perform different tasks at the same time, pointing to having one write code, while the other checks for accuracy as an example.

“When you do this sort of thing, you give up some of your own control over this system and give these agents some autonomy. In that sense, an agent is sort of like a philosophical question,” said Brinkerhoff.

Brinkerhoff says companies limit agents through a “sandbox,” restricting which parts of the computer they can access and what commands they can run.

Those guardrails are largely set by artificial intelligence companies.

“Anthropic, for example, is taking care of specifying what Claude is allowed to do for you. If you’re an advanced user and know your way around a computer system you can definitely be a little bit more directed than that. I could spin up a whole new computer inside my computer that the LLM would not be able to see outside of, but that’s a little bit of a niche case, and I’d say the vast majority of people that are using this tool aren’t doing that,” said Brinkerhoff.

Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthopic, published an op-ed called “We Must Pace the Frontier,” in which he warns AI systems are advancing too fast.

In the piece, he reiterates his support for the technology and the potential for it to cure diseases, and benefit humanity. But he warns of the potential of bots taking over the internet in six to 12 months, “such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage).”

Brinkerhoff says that process is already taking shape, pointing to more and more social media comments not written by humans.

“As long as one has enough computational power to throw a lot of different agents at say hacking a website, these things have been pretty good at finding existing security vulnerabilities,” said Brinkerhoff.

But it’s not all negative, Brinkerhoff notes AI has helped with his research and can already code more quickly and accurately then he can as a life-long computer scientist.

“It’s like having your smartest and most enthusiastic colleague there to answer any questions that you might have immediately while also having a whole fleet of graduate students ready to take all your ideas and turn them into computer code in the blink of an eye,” said Brinkerhoff.

President Donald Trump has maintained that advancing the technology is necessary to compete with China.

NBC Montana reached out to Montana’s Congressional delegation to ask if they think more federal guardrails are needed, U.S. Sen. Steve Daines and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke did not respond by publication time.

U.S. Rep. Troy Downing sent NBC Montana the following statement:

“AI is moving quickly, and we need to make sure America stays ahead,” said Congressman Downing. “There is a role for reasonable federal guardrails, especially when it comes to national security, but we should be careful not to overregulate a technology that is still developing. We also need to make sure rural communities and small businesses have the opportunity to benefit from it.”

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy’s team pointed to a statement he made on X:

The full interview is embedded below: