- Environmental and animal-welfare groups havefiled a lawsuitclaiming the U.S. government is violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing the use of two predator-killing poisons.
- The Montana Senate has given final approval to a $10.3 billion budgetfor the next two years, but lawmakers still haven't decided how much to set aside in reserves.
- The Montana Senate has advanced a bill seeking to prohibit the governor from using the state's aircraft for campaign purposes in the two months before an election.
- A total of nine dead cows have been found along a Montana river and wildlife officials say while it's not common, it's also not unheard of.
- The Missoula City Commission has voted to pull $2.6 million of the city's money from Wells Fargoaccounts because the bank is invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline and because employees opened fraudulent customer accounts to generate fees and bonuses.
- Wyoming lawmakers and educators are preparing to replace the state's education funding model, which is currently facing a $400 million annual shortfall in the next years.
- The Montana Department of Justice is entering the state's backlog of rape kits into a new system that will track and monitor the status of the kits.