Montana authorities say they are seeing more fake tax returns filed due to a rise identity theft.
The Interior Department is extending for 60 days a comment period on a proposal to increase industry royalty payments for coal, oil and natural gas extracted from public leases.
The family of a 17-year-old German exchange student who was shot to death last spring in Montana has filed a lawsuit against the owners of the home where he was shot.
A Canadian oil pipeline company is temporarily suspending efforts to seize Nebraska land for the Keystone Pipeline XL amid a legal challenge.