The owner of the water system that serves the city of Missoula has sold it to another company without the approval of the Public Service Commission. This despite a court ruling that gives the city the right to buy the utility for a little under $90 million.
A central Montana coal mine that cut about 20 percent of its workforce last month has reached an agreement with environmentalists and state regulators that's intended to avoid a major shutdown.
Today the state agency that oversees child abuse and neglect services challenged parts of an audit of their work released last fall.
Republican Senator Steve Daines’s guest at tomorrow night’s state of the union address will be coal industry advocate Jason Small. Small is the president of the Helena Based trade union Boilermakers Local 11. He’s from Busby and a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that it will conduct a 12-month review to determine if the Northern Rockies fisher should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Montana lawmakers are trying to improve mental health care treatment for young people. One idea they’re looking at would link how much counsellors or mental health care providers get paid to how well their patients do.
A federal judge has ruled that Idaho's regulations for trapping furbearers in northern Idaho violate the Endangered Species Act by allowing the occasional capture of federally protected Canada lynx.