Lieutenant Governor Angela Mclean is leaving her post after less than two years on the job. McLean got the job in 2014 after John Walsh left for the U.S. Senate to replace Max Baucus. Now McLean’s leaving, too, taking a post with the state Commissioner on Higher Education as the “director of American Indian and minority achievement and K-12 partnerships.”
Authorities in Powell County say the bodies of a mother and son from Deer Lodge who were reported missing almost a month ago have been found.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced an agreement today (Mon 11/30) about the clean-up of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant.
A majority of Montana lawmakers say the state Department of Revenue did not follow legislative intent when it wrote a rule barring religious schools from benefiting from a new tax-credit program.
Angela McLean is resigning as Montana’s Lieutenant Governor to take a post advocating for American Indian and minority students in the state’s university system.
135 employees for the Golden Sunlight Mine lost their jobs today meaning the last open-pit gold mine in Whitehall is ceasing operations.
Mine operator Barrick Gold Corp., of Toronto, announced the layoffs in mid-September. The mine has been in operation since the 1980s.