On this edition of Montana Morning Newscast, the state Legislature is re-opening the debate over gun regulation while authorities have lowered their estimate of how much oil spilled from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River.
Gallatin County could become the third county in southwestern Montana where a state game warden can also cite people for drunken driving. Missoula County officials have scheduled an inquest into the shooting death of a Missoula man by a police officer after a chase early on New Year's Eve.
The U.S. Forest Service has a new plan for land impacted by logging and logging roads near Darby and a Montana House Committee yesterday took up a bill that could provide a preview of the coming debate on Medicaid expansion.
Senate Democrats have temporarily stalled progress on a bill to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the Montana House of Representatives yesterday advanced a bill that would provide three month housing vouchers for paroled inmates who would not have a place to live otherwise.
A Republican state lawmaker has agreed to pay a $4,000 fine and not run for public officer for four years to settle a lawsuit that accuses him of breaking campaign finance laws.