When thousands of Rural Electric leaders from across the nation meet in Nashville, March 6-9, for their annual meeting, it will be a special time for Montana’s Electric Cooperatives. For the first time, one of their own from the Big Sky Country will be leading the national association. In March of 2021, when Chris Christensen from Hinsdale ...
PowerXchange, NRECA’s annual meeting of members, will be back in person March 6-9 in Nashville, Tennessee, after going entirely online last year because of COVID-19. The cutoff date for hotel reservations is Jan. 26, which is also the last day for PowerXchange early-bird registration. For those unable to travel, there will be a...
Inflation is causing considerable trouble for households and cities. Billings is no exception. City Administrator Chris Kukulski.
The Bureau of Land Management has missed the deadline to notice a sale on promised oil and gas leasing for the fifth consecutive quarter. The BLM announced November 1st it would complete an environmental assessment of 195 recommended parcels and accepted public comment through December 1st. The agency is also required to notice a sale at least...
Various agencies have come together to address elder abuse in Montana through regional councils. Former prosecutor Paul Greenwood who has been involved with them over the years pointed out recently on Voices of Montana it’s often those closest to the victims who are the abusers.
The families of passengers Donald and Marjorie Varnadoe and Zach Schneider filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Monday alleging Amtrak and track owner BNSF were responsible for the lethal derailment last fall near Joplin. The Empire Builder was traveling along a scenic route from Chicago to Seattle. The Varnadoes were on a trip celebrating t...
Monday, both President Biden and the European Union announced sanctions against Russia in response to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgment of separatist groups in Eastern Ukraine on the brink of a possible invasion of Ukraine. Senator Jon Tester agrees the U.S. should intervene if that would happen.
The abrupt chill that collided with a moist Pacific weather front and caused flash-freezing in several spots across Montana is expected to stay at least through Wednesday. Winds will persist also as a second wave of Canadian cold air pushes south spilling over the Continental Divide. Temperature lows could drop to 10 or 15 below zero for most ...
The Department of Public Health and Human Services has updated resource tools on its website ParentingMontana.org to help Montana guardians teach kids about marijuana and other drug misuse and topics like stress and childhood trauma. Director Adam Meier.
Later this year when you see crops growing or land with nothing growing know there could be some “Carbon Cropping” going on. Brekke Munks, a carbon cropping agronomist with Agoro Carbon Alliance, talked about how today’s farmers are getting paid for sequestering carbon recently on Voices of Montana.
