The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior have opened for public comment a new rule that will govern hydraulic fracturing on federal lands if approved.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces that $1,474,935 worth of federal dollars would be pouring into Montana.
Missoula's Neptune Aviation heard bad news this week when the U.S. Forest Service announced the winners of lucrative contracts for developing the next generation of firefighting air tankers.
Federal prosecutors say a Chippewa Cree tribal leader and a former Montana legislator used a shell company to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus aid into their own pockets.
The economy added 165,000 jobs in April, bringing the overall unemployment rate down a tick to 7.5 percent. The monthly report from the Labor Department also included upward revisions to the last two reports, helping to ease fears of a slowdown.