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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A recent sale of oil and gas leases on federal lands in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota brought in $3.9 million in bonus bids.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Wildlife advocates are asking a federal judge to stop the use of helicopters to haze migrating bison back into Yellowstone National Park, a practice they allege scares threatened grizzly bears.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana wildlife regulators will consider proposals this week on ways to expand this year's wolf hunt in an effort to reduce the population of predators.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The leaders of the Crow Indians, the state of Montana and the U.S. Department of Interior have signed a water compact that resolves decades of legal disputes over water rights on the tribe's arid reservation.

DEER LODGE, Mont. (AP) - Montana officials have rejected parole for a notorious "mountain man" who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son.

BILLLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Booming oil production in the Northern Plains is spurring law enforcement from the U.S. and Canada to gird for a spike in crimes ranging from drug trafficking to prostitution.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The U.S. attorney's office in Montana has filed federal drug and weapons charges against one of the notorious "mountain men," a father and-son duo convicted in kidnapping a world class athlete in 1984, killing a would-be rescuer and eluding authorities for months.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has donated $51,000 for government efforts to control the gray wolf population in Montana.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A federal lawsuit in Montana over bone castings from three well-known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens has been settled for largely undisclosed terms.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Montana livestock officials are proposing an expansion of an animal disease zone around Yellowstone National Park after finding elk that were exposed to brucellosis.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Texas company is planning to revive production in a 45-year-old southeastern Montana oil field by pumping carbon dioxide deep underground to free up an estimated 30 million of barrels of trapped crude.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A new study says the development of Montana's proposed Otter Creek coal mine would give a major boost to the eastern Montana economy and create almost 2,000 construction jobs.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - An official with the Northern Rockies Coordination Center says forecasters for now are expecting a normal wildfire season.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Montana judge has granted a restraining order that blocks further relocations of Yellowstone National Park bison following objections from ranchers and property rights groups.