An Obama administration effort to overhaul coal sales from public lands will be put to its first test this week as companies seek to advance two major mining projects in the Western states.
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox officially filed for re-election yesterday.
The commissioner of political practices has found campaign violations by two candidates and a student organization in the 2014 elections.
A wildlife advocate and a freelance journalist are suing the National Park Service to gain access to a program that ships Yellowstone National Park bison to slaughter.
Warrants have been issued in Minnesota for a Montana man and his wife who prosecutors say financed their lifestyles by exploiting the man's elderly mother for over $42,000 while overseeing her estate.
Officials say the Environmental Protection Agency will put off a decision on whether to approve Superfund cleanup of the shuttered Columbia Falls Aluminum Company plant.
Montana has seen almost seven straight years of economic growth now, and more is forecasted for the future.
The Montana Petroleum Association has named a former republican state senator as its next executive director.
The former field services director of the state division of Child and Family Services says some families who have complained about the agency are justified in saying that their cases were mishandled.
The latest unemployment numbers say the state jobless rate fell by a tenth of a percentage point in December to an even four percent.