Author: Brian Bennett

Bozeman construction company Barnard Construction has received a $569 million addition to an existing contract awarded in May 2019 to build a total of about 37 miles of border wall between the United States and Mexico. The $569 million addition brings its total to over one billion dollars.

The Great Falls City Commission has OK’d the final details of a $3.2 million bond sale needed to repay developer West Bank LLC its upfront costs for public improvements tied to the West Bank Land development. D.A. Davidson and Company will handle the bond sale for the city’s project on the west bank of the Missouri River.

Western Montana firefighters are doing mop up work on a 40-acre wildfire on the Henry Creek drainage about 5 miles east of Plains on the Lolo National Forest. The cause has not been determined for the fire which was located about 2 miles behind a U.S. Forest Service gate. An investigation is ongoing.

The Montana Historical Society unveiled an updated design for its more than $32 million addition and renovation this week during a digital open house. The state has sent out a request for proposals on the project and responses are due by April 30th.  Hopes are a general contractor can be selected by June 1st. A new parking lot is expected to b...

Over 43% of households in Montana have filled out their census so far according to Census Bureau reports. Through the end of the month households who haven’t yet responded to the census should expect paper invitations and questionnaires with reminder postcard mailers arriving around May 1st.  The reminder forms were pushed back because of coro...

There’s a 4.5 mil stretch of Highway 569 between Anaconda and the Big Hole River that has steep tight curves and rough roads where frost heaves and has knee deep potholes. Anaconda-Deer Lodge County officials hope to land a $12 million federal grant to straighten out the “S” curves put in hydraulic controls and reconstruct it from Clear Creek ...