Business and tourism leaders from across Missoula have launched a new campaign to bring more airlines and flight options to the Garden City. A new flight announcement is expected soon and backers of the program are looking to add to the city's travel options.

Nearly two years after gathering ideas and concerns regarding the design of new construction and urban growth in Missoula, the firm contracted by the city to study the issue and make recommendations presented its preliminary findings this week.

The renovations taking place at Southgate Mall will soon include Lucky's Market, a grocery chain that announced its intention to open in Missoula earlier this year. It's one of several projects intended to transform the Midtown property into a vibrant hub built around multiple uses.

Bridge Pizza, whose members include the owners of the fabled pizza joint on Higgins Avenue, have purchased the old Tower Pizza property at 3000 Brooks Street, where they plan to renovate the funky structure into something more traditional.

A Washington utility with 32 customers in western Montana and a part owner in the Colstrip power plant is asking the state's Public Service Commission to approve its plans to merge with a Canadian firm, creating one of the largest regulated utilities in North America.

Jen Knoetgen's upstart business, Montana Meat Shares, looks to source cows, pigs and chickens from local farms that she has vetted personally. It's one step in her push to bring ethics back to eating and ensure the animals destined for the dinner table have lived a fulfilling life.

By the time Advanced Technology Group inflated the balloons to celebrate its 100 employees on Friday night, the last two digits were already obsolete. The problem was, nobody had the one and two to make it 112.

The Missoula City Cemetery won’t get into the monument selling or engraving business, but it will claim exclusive rights to placing those headstones in the ground and to the sale of grave liners. The decision came Monday night, despite the opposition of five City Council members and the absence of two others, which threw the 5-5 tie vote to Mayor John Engen.