Legislative analysts say Montana had about $455 million in reserves at the end of the 2015 fiscal year.
Montana lawmakers are exploring whether to purchase the privately run Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby when the state's 20 year contract with Corrections Corporation of America is up in 2019.
A new pilot course designed to address the shortage in computer programmers in Montana opens Monday.
State lawmakers and educators are reviewing the state funding formula for education, a decade after a lawsuit forced Montana to create the system.
The Montana commissioner of political practices has dismissed a complaint that Gov. Steve Bullock's 2012 campaign illegally coordinated with outside groups.
A former firefighter with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes has been given a 20 year suspended sentence with the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to setting several fires on the Flathead Indian Reservation in 2013 and 2014.
Idaho water officials say they want to expand cloud seeding efforts by taking an aerial approach to coax more snow from winter storms.