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For a fifth straight week, average gas prices in Montana have remained quiet, with prices fluctuating less than a few cents per gallon over the last month.

Gas prices continue to increase across the U.S. and prices in Missoula are starting to catch up to the national average.

Gas prices were supposed to increase in February, but they have slowly dropped over the past couple of weeks in Montana.

While gas prices fall across the country, Montana prices are rising. Gasbuddy.com’s Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan explains.

Even though a majority of states saw gasoline prices jumping over the last week, Petroleum Analyst Will Speer said the same could not be said for Montana. Across the board, Montanans have seen close to a four-cent decrease in gas prices.

Stock markets are on high alert, reports say, after the DOW Jones plummeted over 1,000 points this past week -- the worst week since 2011.

Montana Senator Max Baucus Wednesday doubled down his efforts to get the Keystone XL pipeline built following Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s approval of the route through Nebraska Tuesday.

Let me tell you a little story about a man name Jed. A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shootin at some food and up through the ground came a bubblin crude. Oil that is. Many of us know somebody, or knows somebody who knows somebody, who makes the drive from beautiful Western Montana to the wind swept part of eastern North Dakota for work...