Montana coal production dropped 23% last year as demand for coal for U.S. electricity and exports diminished during the pandemic.
Following a rough year of delivery troubles, the U.S. Postal Service is poised for 10 years of restructuring including longer delivery times. That has letter carriers in Montana concerned.
Federal investigators have issued a scathing audit of a Montana nonprofit organized to end violence against Native American women and children.
More than 100,000 Montana families with children could begin receiving monthly child tax credit payments as early as Thursday under a broad plan to support all but America’s richest families.
The compromise announced Thursday was a topline spending amount with the details of projects still to be hammered out, but Tester was confident in some Montana priorities being covered.
A charitable beef nonprofit plans to open a processing plant near Livingston next year to butcher meat for food banks and ranches with direct retail sales.
Lewis & Clark Generating Station near Sidney delivered its last megawatt at 8 a.m., according to owner Montana Dakota Utilities.
The first transition grants for people affected by changes at the Colstrip Power Plant and Rosebud mine are being offered through the end of April.
Montana exited 2020 with 16,600 fewer payroll jobs than it had before the pandemic and a relatively flat recovery, December jobs statistics show.
Montana’s only U.S. representative, Matt Rosendale, told his Twitter followers Monday that House Democrats were raising false claims of a national crisis to call on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to remove him using the 25th Amendment.
Montana’s economic recovery remained slow for a third month as the first year of the COVID-19 recession entered December.
A horse shot and left for dead Christmas weekend at a remote church camp near Fishtail is under investigation.
Much is on the line for Montana agriculture in the omnibus spending and COVID-19 President Donald Trump signed Sunday.
Population estimates released Tuesday suggest Montana could have the growth needed to add a second U.S. House seat.
Billings Gazette agriculture and politics reporter Tom Lutey shares some of his most memorable stories from 2020.
Aside from its $900 billion price tag, there weren’t many known details about a COVID-19 relief package emerging from the Senate this week, but Montana lawmakers welcomed the news.
As the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline prepares for quick dial, Montana and 36 other states are having to tune up their phone numbers to accommodate the new 988 help line.
Citing a need to “level the playing field” on energy taxes, Montana’s majority Republican Legislature will consider raising taxes on wind and solar developments as the coal industry struggles.
Last week, U.S. Sens. Jon Tester, of Montana, and Deb Fischer, of Nebraska, introduced a bill to improve safety at rural train crossings. Tester cited recent incidents in Bainville specifically when announcing the bill.
The pace of Montana’s recovery from the COVID-19 recession slowed in October, according to the federal jobs figures released Friday.
Eight years after it started working on a cleanup plan for the toxic coal ash ponds at Colstrip Power Plant, Gov. Steve Bullock’s administration is running out of time to finalize cleanup terms for the environmental mess.
Montana wheat farmers are several weeks into a price improvement, largely because global trade is improving.
Coal economy struggles are showing up on Montana tax rolls with millions of dollars past due to state and local governments.
The Montana Democratic Party says a trade-war-plagued sales agreement between the Montana Stockgrowers Association and online China grocer JD.com has all but fallen apart, for which Democrats blame U.S. Sen. Steve Daines.
Kathleen Williams has opened a substantial cash advantage over Matt Rosendale in Montana’s U.S. House race.