Missoula officials are considering a 2-cent local option gas tax to cover the growing costs of road maintenance, construction and repair.
Some 465 coal mine workers in Northeast Wyoming are being laid off.
Residents of a Missoula apartment building say their smoke alarms alerted them to an early morning fire, allowing them time to escape.
In Yellowstone National Park, Bicycle season began yesterday. Forty-nine miles of park roads from the West Entrance at West Yellowstone to Mammoth Hot Springs are open to cyclists.
The Missoula Current website reports Missoulian newspaper editor Matt Bunk was suspended until further notice this week.
One of the owners of the coal-fired electricity plants Colstrip Units one and two denies his company is angling for a fast-track closure.
The Missoula Chamber of Commerce hasn’t yet taken a position on a possible 2-cent local option gas tax.