- Environmental and animal-welfare groups have filed a lawsuit claiming 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 budget for 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 Fargo accounts 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.
Evening Newscast: Tuesday, Apr 4
