- A Montana Roman Catholic diocese will file for bankruptcy protection as part of a settlement with 72 people who filed sex abuse claims, church officials said today
- The Montana Senate has endorsed a bill that would increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products and, for the first time, impose a tax on e-cigarettes
- Legislation aiming ot secure the social and economic future of Colstrip and the community sustained, in part, by the town's coal-fired plant, passed out of the Senate yesterday
- Plans to drill subsurface oil and gas wells under a Cheyenne neighborhood have stalled
- An attempt to launch a remote-controlled boat to test water in a former Montana open-pit mine in Butte has failed
- Fiscal conservatives in the Montana House have rejected an infrastructure bill that contained $78 million in bonding
- About 50 people attended a public meeting to discuss the state's closure of 183 miles of the Yellowstone River when a parasite killed tens of thousands of fish late last summer and how a similar occurrence might be handled in the future
- A Vietnam Veterans Memorial has been installed in Cheyenne
- Democrats have failed in a last-ditch effort to allow counties to conduct the May 25 congressional election by mail
- Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is appealing the dismissal of his sage grouse lawsuit against the federal government
- A unanimous decision Thursday night by the Wyoming Business Council will loan nearly $5.7 million to approximately 60 families that farm sugar beets after a winter freeze created an economic disaster
- A tax increase on cigarettes and chew took a step forward yesterday in the Montana Senate
Evening Newscast: Friday, Mar 31
