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A master plan guiding future growth across a north Missoula neighborhood is nearing its final stretch and a high-density, mixed-use neighborhood has emerged as a community preference, along with an improved transportation network.

Franklin Crossing – a collaboration between United Housing Partners, the Missoula Housing Authority and the City of Missoula – will rent below the market rate and help fill a dire need for affordable housing.

A fraudulent enrollment scheme drained $673,745 in federal money from the University of Montana’s Missoula College in 2025, according to a new report from the Legislative Audit Division.

Housing vouchers provided by the Missoula Housing Authority are nearly fully utilized and the wait list for subsidized housing continues to grow, officials told members of the Missoula City Council this week.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years as inflation continues to dog the economy.

For the second time this month, Missoula County is asking an out-of-state investment firm to meet and discuss the future of two mobile home parks and the impact that recent rent hikes have had on residents.

The City Council on an 8-2 vote approved $100,000 in annual funding to ensure MEP continues to carry out the city's economic development goals for another year.

In 2024, Montana's tech industry generated $7.9 billion in revenue and contributed $4.4 billion in value added to Montana’s economy,

Missoula's complete streets policy was last updated in 2016 but now, with the new Unified Development Code in hand, the city is working to bring the policy up do date with current codes.

Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states.