Most Big Sky Country major waterways flowing at normal to above-normal levels As we enter the homestretch of summer most of Big Sky Country’s major waterways are flowing at normal to above-normal levels. A handful of key streams are significantly below their typical summer volume however. As of early August data from 49 U.S. Geological Survey ...
In Montana 46% of rural hospitals don’t have doctors 24/7 in emergency rooms A first of a kind study found that in 2022 at least 7.4% of emergency departments across the U.S. did not have an attending physician on-site 24/7. In Montana for small rural hospitals it was 46% the third-highest rate in the country. Rural ERs may see fewer pat...
Montana PSC to take up data centers AI The Montana Public Service Commission will be scheduling a meeting soon to gather information on data centers. Monday PSC President Brad Molnar said it will call on NorthWestern Energy to outline its current and potential plans to support them. This follows a series of recent announcements about new opera...
Montana officials tell BLM they want more coal available to mine in Powder River Basin The Gianforte administration wants the U.S. Department of Interior to open up millions of acres of coal land in eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin for future leasing but a group of nine environmental organizations from Montana Wyoming and other weste...
BLM seeks public comment on proposed sapphire mine near Hauser Lake The Bureau of Land Management is looking for public comment on a proposed Montana Sapphire Mining Company permit on public land on the shore of Hauser Lake outside Helena. If approved it would conduct placer mining and processing to recover sapphires from McCune Bar gravels o...
July Was Historic Month For New Business Registration In Montana A record nearly 7,000 new business registrations were filed in Montana last month topping the previous monthly best of roughly 6,700 in April. So far this year nearly 45,000 new business registrations have been filed with the Secretary of State’s Office. Montana has experienced r...
Judge Rules Rocky Mountain Wolves Wrongly Denied Endangered Species Protections U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled Tuesday the federal government must reconsider its refusal to grant protections for gray wolves in the Rocky Mountains because killing them in Montana Idaho and Wyoming puts the species at risk. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser...
Travel Boycott Cuts Canadian Visitation To Montana Canadian tourism is on the decline with cross-border visits down more than 30% compared to last summer. At high-traffic areas like Sweetgrass and Roosville visitation from Canada is down by almost a third. Canada even has its own “buy local” movement that encourages avoiding U.S. trips hurting...
Attorney General Knudsen visits Anaconda 48 hours after four people were killed in shooting Attorney General Austin Knudsen received a briefing Sunday in Anaconda regarding the Friday morning shooting at the Owl Bar and ongoing search for the suspect 45-year-old Michael Brown who opened fire killing four people before fleeing the scene. Brown ...
NorthWestern Energy inks power agreement with proposed AI data center in Yellowstone County NorthWestern Energy has signed a letter of intent to supply as much as 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the year 2030 to what would be the largest data center in Montana in Yellowstone County by Texas-based Quantica Infrastructure. The total load for ...
