On this edition of Montana Morning Newscast,Cleanup work on a 30,000 gallon oil pipeline spill into the Yellowstone River near Glendive has been effectively put on hold for a month or more while local governments are asking the state of Montana for a greater share of the tax collected on metal mines.
A draft bill that would ban the death penalty in Montana is now on the table and some of Montana’s sportsmen want limits placed on aerial drones.
A long-running effort to overhaul Montana’s domestic violence laws was renewed at the state capitol yesterday. A republican lawmaker is calling for Montana to join 24 other states in supporting a convention that would amend the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.