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HELENA – A dark-money political organization that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars during the 2012 election to support conservative candidates for office has settled a lawsuit accusing it of violating Montana’s campaign finance laws. (more…) Continue Reading →
The day after Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he was retiring, an audience of 150-some energized people listened to six Democratic congressional primary candidates sound off Thursday night at the Babcock Theatre in downtown Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →
Speaking at the 37th Annual Montana Indian Education Conference at the Billings Hotel and Convention Center last week, Reno Charette envisioned a future where all Native American students are so educated they’ll continually challenge college professors with their viewpoints. (more…) Continue Reading →
COLUMBUS —Enough science is in to know this much: Montanans will be sweating through hotter days, fighting more wildfires and dealing with increasing uncertainties in agriculture through the decades ahead. (more…) Continue Reading →
Denise Juneau, for two terms Montana’s superintendent of public instruction, will be the next superintendent of Seattle Public Schools. School board members there voted unanimously Wednesday night to negotiate a contract with Juneau, who will be the city’s first Native American school superintendent. (more…) Continue Reading →
In the days before World War I, Clarence Sinclair Bull took his first photograph — of a ladder leaning against a building on his father’s ranch south of Sun River, using a camera he bought in a Great Falls hardware store. Not too many years after that, he was photographing Hollywood’s elite. (more…) Continue Reading →
The employees of the Missoula Independent have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to begin the process of forming a union, according to a press release sent Monday afternoon by the Missoula News Guild Organizing Committee. Support for the filing was unanimous across the staff’s editorial, production and sales departments, the release stated. (more…) Continue Reading →
Allete Clean Energy is planning to build an 80-megawatt wind farm near Geyser under a 15-year power purchase agreement with NorthWestern Energy. Allete acquired the South Peak project from Peak Clean Energy and expects to bring it online by late 2019. (more…) Continue Reading →
HELENA — A group at the center of one of the biggest elections scandals in modern Montana history is actively engaged in the 2018 election, while hiding its activities and spending, according to a complaint filed with state elections regulators. (more…) Continue Reading →
Montana’s middle class suffered the nation’s largest decrease in its share of the state’s overall household income in the decade from 2007 to 2016, a new analysis shows. (more…) Continue Reading →
