Bakken Oil

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox is asking the federal district court in Great Falls to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to stop the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Montana AG Tim Fox petitions to Department of Transportation to nullify a Washington State law that would prohibit the rail shipment of crude oil from the Bakken.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Colorado man is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for the murder of a Montana teacher whose death highlighted the downsides of an oil boom that has brought thousands of newcomers to the remote Northern Plains.