Missoula Current

Climate Connections: Our annual Wildfire Smoke Ready Week is earlier in the summer this year. This allows us, collectively, to have more time to prepare for whatever summer may bring.

The Lolo National Forest publicized two initiatives that allow more state involvement and less public input in logging projects. Some citizens claim it’s a return to “logging without laws” from the 1990s.

Dave Stalling writes, "A grizzly bear does not care about bureaucratic definitions. It cares whether the landscape provides enough secure habitat to survive." One acre is not habitat security.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is among a wave of Republican governors across the country who have declared June something other than Pride Month, stepping away from what was a common recognition nationally since 1999.

Reno City Council voted to keep a temporary data center moratorium in place and vowed to adopt new regulations sometime next year.

Grizzly bear advocates are suing a second national forest in Montana for claiming grizzly bears need only an acre of forest to be safe.

The White House has contested Congress’ authority to rein in the president’s war powers — and Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week declared the administration’s hostilities against Tehran were over.

Pending a final vote, the city will issue two revenue bonds to generate roughly $9.7 million needed for improvements to the water building occupied by Public Works and Mobility.

Jim Elliott writes, "It seems strange to me that we are willing to condemn people simply because they are members of a group we don’t like."

According to the Green Burial Council, a vault burial emits around 250 pounds of carbon while a green burial emits 25 pounds.