- A national coalition of press groups is asking a congressional ethics panel to consider disciplinary measures against Montana's newly elected congressman, who is charged with throwing a reporter to the ground during a confrontation a day before the election
- Montana officials say two boats carrying invasive mussels were stopped at watercraft inspection stations over the Memorial Day weekend
- The University of Wyoming Art Museum has received an anonymous donation of $2.3 million, the largest in museum history
- A University of Montana spokeswoman says 30 percent of its employees offered early retirement buyouts have shown interest in taking the deal
- State and federal wildlife officials are investigating after a male grizzly bear that had been shot to death was found in the Stillwater River in northwestern Montana
- City officials in Cheyenne say they might seek federal disaster assistance funds to help clean up branches knocked down by a snowstorm
- The heads of the two largest public land agencies in the U.S. have announced a joint agreement emphasizing cooperation among federal, state, tribal and local agencies in battling wildfires as the main part of the wildfire season arrives
- The diplomas handed out to Cody High School's 130 graduating seniors have to be reprinted because the printer included the wrong signatures
- A former fire chief in northwestern Montana has acknowledged stealing more than $50,000 from his department over the span of four years
- A Montana Supreme Court justice added his own legal spin to a long-established rule of the drug trade in rejecting a federal inmate's appeal of a state drug possession charge—Justice Jeremiah Shea closed the opinion with: "Don't get high on your own supply, 'cause double jeopardy don't apply"