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Several environmental groups have expanded their lawsuit against the Keystone XL Pipeline. They are challenging claims that spills from the pipeline are unlikely and therefore “not likely to adversely affect” whooping cranes and other endangered species...

State lawyers are telling a judge that Montana's governor had the constitutional right to veto spending on projects he deemed unwanted or unnecessary. Six local governments are suing Gov. Brian Schweitzer, trying to undo his vetoes of money for their local bridge and water projects...

The widow of a man killed by a grizzly bear not long after the animal awoke from tranquilizers in the wild country near Yellowstone National Park has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

A spokesman for Elouise Cobell says the Blackfeet woman who led a 15-year fight to force the U.S. government to account for more than a century of mismanaged Indian land royalties has died. She was 65.

Six local governments have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Brian Schweitzer over his line-item vetoes of money for their local bridge and water projects. Carbon, Fergus, Madison and Sweet Grass counties, the city of Roundup and the town of Sheridan filed the lawsuit in District Court in Helena last week. They also named Commerce Director Dore Schwinden and the state of Montana.

Judge Ray Dayton dismissed a claim yesterday that Montana transportation officials violated the state constitution when they approved an oil company's plans to haul oversized refinery equipment through Montana to Canada's oil sands. I spoke with Missoula County Commissioner Michelle Landquist on Wednesday afternoon about Judge Dayton’s decision. That interview in it’s entirety is attached. Read Mo