- Lee Enterprises has bought the free alternative weekly newspaper the Missoula Independent
- A fossil found by an elk hunter in Montana nearly seven years ago has led to the discovery of a new species of prehistoric sea creature
- Montana regulators have failed to win legislative support to require NorthWestern Energy to share in the cost of supplying power to customers because of unexpected outages
- Montana voters won't have to decide whether to define what a person is in the state constitution
- The University of Wyoming will buy a vacant house on Sorority Row to prevent the building from falling into disrepair
- Scientists say a giant aquifer below an eastern Idaho federal nuclear facility is as free of radioactive contamination and other pollutants as it has been in more than six decades of monitoring but that the water level is at the lowest level ever recorded
- Montana wildlife managers are trying to capture a black bear that killed two goats in a south Billings neighborhood this week
- Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has halted plans to transfer management of Montana's National Bison Range to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Montana police say a teen has confessed that she helped start a fire at her high school last year that caused more than $2.7 million in damage
- Montana State University students have overwhelmingly approved increasing student fees to improve campus recreation facilities
- Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has appointed a new director of the state Department of Corrections
Evening Newscast: Thursday, Apr 13
