- BNSF Railway has appealed an environmental review of a coal-export terminal in Washington state, arguing it miscalculated or overstated the risk of cancer for some residents
- Republican Greg Gianforte has dipped into his own pocketbook by loaning himself $1 million to finance his bid for Montana's seat in the U.S. House
- Three coal companies operating in Wyoming have paid more than $80 million in property taxes due this past week
- TransCanada Corporation is reassessing whether oil producers in North Dakota and Montana are still interested in shipping crude through its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline now that they have other new options to ship their product, including the Dakota Access pipeline
- The governor of Wyoming is putting one man in charge of two state agencies to save money while the state struggles with declining revenue.
- A small school in central Wyoming closed for nearly a year because of a gas leak has cleared its first air-quality test
- A Native American advocacy group is asking Wyoming wildlife managers for a ban on killing wolves along a wide swath of land bordering Yellowstone National Park
- A state environmental official says Wyoming is improving its waste recycling programs and is better at it than what some national rankings suggest
- Bighorn Reservoir on the Montana-Wyoming border is more than 70 percent full despite record-breaking outflows
- Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl is leaving office after four years in which he and his staff cleared a backlog of campaign complaints, rewrote campaign finance rules and brought court cases against nine Republican primary candidates
- Helena Regional Airport in Montana will soon be using a full-body scanner for the first time since March 2013
- A lingering winter followed by wet weather has delayed planting of some crops in Wyoming this spring
- The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees has approved establishing an honors college