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It's Monday, February 14. (Happy Valentine's Day, if that's your thing.) Today in Montana news: no more mask requirement in Bozeman public Schools; an abortion lawsuit heads back to court; and long-term residents of a Kalispell hotel that closed over the weekend scramble to find new housing.

It's Tuesday, March 15th. Billings' public transit gets funding for new buses, more than 300 people filed to run for office in the state and the Montana State Hospital receives more time to prevent the loss of Medicare funding.

It's Thursday, March 17th. A disability rights group has reached a settlement with the Montana Department of Corrections over conditions at the Montana State Prison and the state hospital projected to spend about $7 million over its budget due to staffing issues.

It's Friday, March 11th. A long-distance rail study boosts hopes that passenger rail could return to the state, a former Secretary of State looking into running for president and the U.S. Census Bureau undercounts American Indian, Black and Hispanic residents at higher rates than a decade ago.

It's Monday, March 14th. Today is the filing deadline for candidates running for office in the state, the Montana Democratic Party hires a coordinator to engage Native American voters and the impacts on water supply due to warming temperatures in the Greater Yellowstone region.

It's Tuesday, April 5th. Federal funds to clean up developed and abandoned mine land and the state environmental regulatory agency reaffirms its argument that a pollution standard for a lake in northwest Montana follows state and federal law after a state review board called it into question.

It's Wednesday, April 6th. The plan to expand Helena's psychiatric children's hospital, a ballot initiative to add extra protections to sections of two popular Montana rivers and why a bitcoin mining company near southeastern Montana's Crow reservation is relocating.

It's Thursday, April 7th. Montana's updated brand policy to identify livestock, the Blackfeet tribal court released the names of those arrested at the home of the tribal chairman and a conversation about an initiative to review the troubled legacy of federal Indigenous boarding school policies in the U.S.

It's Monday, April 11th. Subpar mountain snow pack as the state continues to see low precipitation, a 2020 pollution rule for Lake Koocanusa and cases of bird flue found in poultry in Judith Basin and Cascade Counties.

It's Tuesday, April 12th. A Winter Storm Warning in effect for much of the state, federal officials say they will pull funding from the Montana State Hospital today and what the successful restoration of Yellowstone National Park's bison herd looks like in the future.