On today's morning newscast: three leaders of an online lending company owned by Montana's Chippewa Cree Tribe say tribal immunity from lawsuits extends to them as individuals.
Search crews have recovered two bodies from the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed into a Washington state mountainside over the weekend.
The Montana Supreme Court has ruled a Maryland woman who was convicted of killing her estranged husband and his girlfriend in Montana must pay nearly $37,000 for the cost of her public defender.
Twenty-four counties in western and central Montana are officially drought disaster areas, under a declaration issued Wednesday by the U.S. Agriculture Department. Spokesman Jayson O’Neill with the Montana Agriculture Department says growers in those counties can apply for loans through the Farm Service Agency.
A U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman says the agency is considering a more stringent analysis of a mining proposal near Yellowstone National Park after receiving thousands of public comments on the project.
Highway Patrol says women from Arizona and Utah were among three people killed in a head-on crash between two pickups in west-central Montana. The patrol says a 29-year-old woman from Red Mesa, Arizona and a 28-year-old woman from Montezuma Creek, Utah, died in the crash Wednesday morning on U.S. Highway 287 north of Wolf Creek. A man in the pickup also died.
Nine cars near the end of a 116-car freight train derailed in northeastern Montana, delaying freight traffic and disrupting Amtrak service between Seattle and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Health officials are reminding parents to vaccinate kids against chickenpox and whooping cough as a new state law takes effect this fall.