On today's morning newscast: the U.S. House has passed legislation designed to improve the health of national forests by scaling back the environmental reviews that go into some timbering projects and making it harder to file lawsuits that delay thinning projects.
Authorities say a man who was driven to a hospital in Bozeman with a gunshot wound to the abdomen accidentally shot himself while spinning a small-caliber handgun around his finger.
Federal officials will host a series of public meetings this summer on the U.S. government's coal program after criticism that corporations are profiting off publicly-owned reserves of the fuel at the expense of taxpayers.
Attendance at Glacier National Park soared in last month, making it the busiest June on record. The Flathead Beacon reports that 414 thousand visitors came to the park last month.
The Missoula County sheriff's department is seeking donations for a 74-year-old man who was scammed out of his life savings.
A Billings woman has pleaded guilty to deliberate homicide for the death of her infant son and two assaults on a minor for injuring the boy's twin sister.
The Blackfeet Tribe has withdrawn from talks with the U.S. Government over natural gas drilling leases on land considered sacred by the Blackfeet people.
State and Fort Belknap Indian Reservation officials are investigating the weekend deaths of 18 bison on the reservation in north-central Montana.
Searchers have found three Midwestern sisters who were missing for days in a northwest Wyoming wilderness area. The sisters are 25-year-old Megan Margaret Andrews-Sharer of Milwaukee; 22-year-old Erin Andrews-Sharer of Columbus, Ohio; and 16-year-old Kelsi Andrews-Sharer, also of Columbus.
Federal officials will host a series of public meetings this summer on the U.S. government's coal program after criticism that corporations are profiting off publicly-owned reserves of the fuel at the expense of taxpayers.
A grizzly bear and her two cubs are being relocated after killing about 10 sheep near Lake Frances.