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If you weren’t aware that elephant-friendly tea was a thing, don’t feel bad. Until just about a year ago, Jake Kreilick hadn’t heard of it, either, and he is the co-owner of the Lake Missoula Tea Co. in downtown Missoula. (more…) Continue Reading →
In 2012, Montanans were introduced to two relatively unknown billionaire brothers from Texas who were in the process of purchasing hundreds of thousands of acres of ranch land in Montana. The Wilks brothers, Farris and Dan — now the second-largest landowners in the state — had made their fortune selling their company Frac Tech, one of the first large hydraulic fracturing companies in the country, at the height of the oil boom, in a deal that was reportedly worth $3.2 billion. (more…) Continue Reading →
Since the summer of 2013, Montana Audubon has engaged citizen scientists in searching for one of Montana’s least understood species, the Black Swift. When we started these efforts, just seven nest sites were known in the state, and it was clear the bird remained among the Species of Greatest Inventory Need. Nesting amongst rocky niches, and under hidden waterfalls, the colonial-breeding Black Swift remains challenging to locate, even to a trained observer’s eye. (more…) Continue Reading →
On the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 11, Billings mayoral candidates Bill Cole and Jeff Essmann sat down in a conference room in the Billings Public Library to field questions from Last Best News partners Ed Kemmick and David Crisp. Ballots for the Nov. 7 municipal election were to have been sent out to registered voters starting on Wednesday, so some people could receive them as early as today, Oct. 20. Continue Reading →
BOZEMAN — A Montana State University graduate who now serves as a lieutenant general in the U.S. Army was recently named commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, an international coalition fighting the Islamic State. (more…) Continue Reading →
BOZEMAN — A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, two neutron stars collided, producing an unprecedented light show and a raft of gravitational waves that traveled the cosmos for 130 million years until MSU scientists played a role in detecting them this summer. (more…) Continue Reading →
Former Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke lit up social media sites Friday with news reports about his resurrection of a little-known and apparently never-used military ritual at the Interior Department’s downtown Washington headquarters. (more…) Continue Reading →
SHEPHERD — Since founding Floating Island International 12 years ago, Bruce Kania has achieved a lot of milestones. More than 7,000 of his man-made islands — he likes to call them “off-the-shelf wetlands” — have been sold around the world. He holds “a couple dozen” patents related to the floating island technology and he has six licensed manufacturers — three in the United States and one each in China, New Zealand the United Kingdom — making his patented BioHaven-brand islands. (more…) Continue Reading →
The American Democracy Legal Fund has filed a federal complaint against Yellowstone County District Judge Russell Fagg, alleging that he violated federal campaign finance laws by campaigning for the U.S. Senate without filing for the seat. The complaint, filed with the Federal Election Commission, contends that while Fagg has not yet filed for office or resigned his seat from the bench, he has actively distributed campaign literature and launched a campaign website with a donation platform. (more…) Continue Reading →
Laurie Lohrer and her husband, Roger, installed solar collectors on their property outside of Lewistown about six years ago. “We continue today to consider it the best investment we ever made,” she said. (more…) Continue Reading →
