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Update: Last-minute filings make for crowded city election

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Hall

Update: Seven more candidates filed Monday afternoon to run for the Billings City Council, making this the most crowded city election in nearly 20 years, maybe longer. With the filing officially closed as of 5 p.m., there are now 26 candidates vying for the mayor’s position and five open seats on the City Council. According to records on the Yellowstone County Elections Office website, that eclipses the number of candidates in any city race going back to 1999, the earliest year for which results are posted. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Bret Rutherford, City Council, Mayor Tom Hanel

With clock ticking, Korean War vet to finally get his Jeep

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Jeep

Jerry Scherer, a veteran of Korea and Vietnam who retired from the Marine Corps as a master sergeant in 1968, turns 87 next week. He was a mechanic all his life, and a couple of years after his wife died nearly 20 years ago, he bought a 1945 Willys Army Jeep from a friend, thinking he could keep busy restoring it. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Billings, News, Chosin Reservoir, Jerry Scherer, Korean War, Magic City 4x4 Club, Vernon Ball

UM scientist issues warning after retreat from climate accord

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Steve R

One week after President Donald Trump shunned the world’s leading scientists and pulled the United States from the global pact on climate change, more than 1,200 U.S. business leaders, governors, mayors and college presidents signed an open letter to the world. Despite the president’s decision, they wrote, America would continue to support climate action in hopes of meeting the goals of the Paris Accord, even “in the absence of leadership from Washington.” (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Climate change, Pzaris Accord

Billings taxi owners, others fight Lyft application

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Lyft

In a tense and often clumsy hearing in Helena on Monday, a handful of taxi companies tried to convince the Montana Public Service Commission to deny an operating permit for a national rideshare company looking to expand to the state. Members of the commission took nearly four hours of testimony from multiple parties regarding a request by Lyft Inc. to begin operating in Montana. The commission approved a similar application by Uber in late 2015, giving a reluctant nod to changing technology and the demands of the traveling public. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Lyft, Montana Public Service Commission, Uber

To the rescue: After bad fall, man now helps deliverers

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Rescue

On Aug. 3, 2014, late in the afternoon, Dr. David Lehnherr lay in a shelter near Black Canyon Lake, high in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, all alone. He had had a nasty fall and a long tumble down a rocky slope earlier in the day, and he had sustained several serious injuries to his legs, his ribs and his head. His hiking companion had left him there while he walked out in search of help, but it was getting dark and the weather was taking a turn for the worse. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Conrad Anker, Dr. David Lehnherr, Jon Trapp, Red Lodge Fire and Rescue, Red Lodge Search and Rescue, Tom Catmull

For conservationists, vetoes took sting out of dim session

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NPRC

A legislative scorecard released this week by one of the state’s major conservation groups paints a stark picture of the partisan divide in Helena. The Northern Plains Resource Council, based in Billings, tallied votes on seven pieces of legislation considered important by its members. With the state House and Senate both controlled by Republican majorities during the recently concluded 2017 Legislature, it perhaps wasn’t surprising that the NPRC was on the losing side of all seven bills. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Austin Knudsen, Montana Legislature, Northern Plains Resource Council, PACE program, Richard Parks

Montanans pan withdrawal from climate accord

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Guv

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock led a chorus of state and regional environmental groups in condemning President Trump’s decision Thursday to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord. In a written statement, Bullock called the move “short-sighted and dangerous” and out of step with what Montanans from all walks of life know to be true. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Paris climate accord, President Trump, Steve Bullock

At town hall, Tester hears of broken VA health system

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Choice

When combat veteran Christine Bailey first discovered the lump in her breast, her first call was like that of any veteran. She dialed up to the VA Montana Health Care System, only to learn that it didn’t offer breast care for women. Bailey’s problems compounded when, under the CHOICE program, which allows veterans to seek care outside the VA, she was met with a tangle of red tape and lengthy delays in trying to get authorization to pursue mammograms and biopsies. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, CHOICE program, Sen. Jon Tester, Veterans Administration

VA Montana director says ‘help is coming’

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Doc

The VA Montana Health Care System is looking at both short- and long-term solutions to address a number of challenges within the state, including a lack of providers, problems with tele-health screenings and the absence of physician training, its new director said Wednesday. Kathy Berger, director of VA Montana, answered questions from area veterans and Sen. Jon Tester during a town hall meeting at the Partnership Health Center in Missoula to gather feedback on problems within the VA. (See related story.) (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Jon Tester, Kathy Berger, VA Montana