On tonight's evening newscast: A health insurance company will refund about $1.7 million to Montana customers that have been forced to pay what the state calls unfairly high prices.
The Blackfeet Tribe has withdrawn from talks with the U.S. Government over natural gas drilling leases on land considered sacred by the Blackfeet people.
The U-S House has passed legislation designed to improve the health of national forests by scaling back the environmental reviews that go into some timbering projects and making it harder to file lawsuits that delay thinning projects.
Federal officials will host a series of public meetings this summer on the U.S. government's coal program after criticism that corporations are profiting from publicly-owned reserves at the expense of taxpayers.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it was a wind gust that pushed a single-engine Cessna off the end of a wilderness airstrip in the Great Bear wilderness a last month, causing a crash that injured three men.
A new wildfire was discovered in Montana late yesterday, it was burning about 5 acres approximately 25 miles southwest of Phillipsburg.
State and Fort Belknap Indian Reservation officials are investigating the weekend deaths of 18 bison on the reservation.
Two mining exploration proposals north of Yellowstone National Park have environmentalists pushing for tougher scrutiny from state and federal officials.
Native American youth from across the nation are gathering in Washington, D.C., for a special summit called by the White House.