The task force had a combined list of 31 recommendations – which include everything from fast-tracking permitting to infusing cash in existing housing funds.
Bill Mercer writes, "With the completion of the poll of the Legislature on whether to override the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 442, I want to explain my consistent opposition to the bill, including voting against overriding the veto."
The past few days of moisture pulled some parts of Montana out of impending deep drought, but western Montana is still critically dry with low snowpack and low streamflows.
While the Ronald McDonald House of Missoula has provided “hope, heroes and high-fives” to families dealing with childhood cancer and disease for nearly a decade, on Thursday night, it turned the page with a ruckus night of music to raise funds for the organization.
Nevada’s mining industry may soon get a reprieve after the Republican-controlled U.S. House passed industry-friendly legislation Wednesday, undoing a consequential court decision that restricted mining companies’ use of federal lands.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is taking the Archdiocese of Seattle to court over records he said the church is refusing to give up in an investigation of its handling of child sex abuse allegations.
Kevin Proescholdt writes, "We must re-learn to practice the humility and restraint toward Wilderness that the architects of the Wilderness Act believed in 60 years ago."
Wildlife biologists have euthanized three black bears that were addicted to human food, but their recent behavior showed that the Bear Smart Missoula program is having an effect.