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Evening Newscast: Monday, Feb 27

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  • The Interior Department has put on hold changes to how it values coal extracted from public lands
     
  • The Wyoming state health department says SageWest hospital in Lander should inform patients who had surgery between December 2013 and October 2016 as they could have been exposed to non-sterile surgical instruments
     
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is delaying a proposal to require mining companies to show they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution so taxpayers aren't stuck footing the bill
     
  • A senator's skepticism about raising sage grouse in captivity won't keep Wyoming from trying under a bill headed to Gov. Matt Mead's desk
     
  • The Montana House has passed a bill to create a charter school system for the state
  • Pressure is building in Congress to take gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and Wyoming off the endangered list, which would allow farmers to fill the animals if they threaten their livestock
     
  • The Montana House has voted down a proposal to allow guns in schools
     
  • A Montana legislative panel has voted against restricting the news media's publication of fatal accident photographs on social media until the victims' next of kin is notified
     
  • A federal appeals court has ruled that Cheyenne police officers were not negligent when they stopped and shot a man inside a vehicle while his infant son was in the back seat
     
  • A Montana legislative committee has advanced a bill that would make it illegal for doctors to help terminally ill patients choose when they die
     
  • An inquest has been scheduled for next month in the shooting death of a Wyoming man by a Billings police officer following a standoff in a hotel lobby
     
  • Ordinary citizens could carry guns into government meetings and teachers could bring them to school under a pair of bills that have passed the Wyoming Legislature