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The 18th annual River City Roots Festival drew a good crowd to downtown Missoula on a hot summer night. Were you there and, if so, do you remember?

A National Park Service report shows that the over 2.9 million people who visited the park spent over $372 million in the nearby communities.

Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer writes, "The Montana Republican Party is now the party of higher taxes and more government spending."

Swapping Kamala Harris for Joe Biden could enable the Democratic Party to keep control of the White House this fall, many Democrats believe — but it might also be the very thing that costs them the U.S. Senate.

Lela Graham writes, "Rather than placing new regulations on peer-to-peer platforms, the Senate should focus on strengthening law enforcement, educating the public about financial scams, and increasing penalties to deter scammers."

Federal land managers Thursday released an updated roadmap for solar energy development across 11 western states, a plan that opens about 32 million acres of federal lands to utility-scale solar development.

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana recently was awarded a $10 million grant to strengthen people-to-people ties between the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

Attorneys say upgrading plant would cost $350M, while closing it will destabilize power grid, raise consumer costs.

Researchers are considering the many ecological factors that impact the species, including predator roles, habitat changes, population distribution and human modifications to the landscape.

Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and other states have lost their integrated wood products infrastructure and struggle to sustainably manage their forests. Montana must not go down that road.