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The Montana Land Board is to vote Monday on whether to put up for lease a half-billion-ton coal reserve near the Wyoming border - a politically charged decision for Gov. Brian Schweitzer and the four other Democrats who make up the panel.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $12 million to the Western Governor's Association to plan for new electricity transmission lines.
As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish - a toothless beast left over from the days of dinosaurs - officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a river so the fish can spawn in the wild.
As the bid to save North America's largest freshwater fish falters, federal officials say they plan to spill more water out of a northwest Montana dam in hopes of getting the species to spawn in the wild.
Farmers and ranchers in central and eastern Montana will be eligible for emergency loans from the federal government after suffering a series of weather disasters this year.
Officials in a third state have accused Crow Tribal member Ted Hogan with fraudulently seeking investments in purported energy development on the Crow Reservation.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. announced Monday it will permanently shutter its paper mill near Frenchtown at the end of the year- a move that will cut 417 manufacturing jobs in western Montana and threaten perhaps 1,000 more in related industries.
Doctors have upgraded former Sen. Conrad Burns' condition from critical to serious, and the three-term Montana Republican was talking again as he recovers from a stroke, hospital representatives and his family said Monday.
Oil production in Montana is off by about 30 percent from its high three years ago, but state officials said rebounding energy prices have staved off a sharp hit to the state's budget.
Federal officials say a wide-ranging prairie songbird may warrant protections under the Endangered Species Act.
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