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Montana schools chief: Expect to finish academic year online
The superintendent of Montana schools told districts to expect to finish out the academic year with distance learning amid the coronavirus outbreak
Our students deserve to be fully funded
If there’s one thing we all can agree on, it’s that we want what is best for our kids. This includes our own children, our grandchildren, and our neighbors, as they are all our kids, our future.
Board OKs Tamarack Meadows subdivision in Columbia Falls
The Columbia Falls City-County planning board Dec. 13 approved a 103-lot subdivision on 47 acres called Tamarack Meadows at the north end of Meadow Lake Resort. It’s the last portion of the master plan that was approved decades ago, but neighbors were none too happy about it.
Gov. Gianforte wants tax rebates, cuts with budget surplus
HELENA — Gov. Greg Gianforte reiterated his administration's priorities to improve Montana's economy in his State of the State address delivered Wednesday to the Legislature, whose job over the next few months will include determining how to allocate an unprecedented $2.6 billion budget surplus.
Health officials pitch millions in funding priorities for Warm Springs, other state facilities
Lawmakers on a key budget committee heard requests Thursday from health department officials and consultants that they say will help stabilize the struggling Montana State Hospital and other public facilities that care for veterans, seniors and people with intellectual disabilities and substance-use disorders.
Blacktail Mountain Ski Area to Celebrate 25 years
Steve Spencer, one of the founders of Blacktail Mountain Ski Area, had been skiing and working at Big Mountain for many years, starting with ski patrol and eventually rising to mountain manager, when he noticed fewer and fewer locals on the hill.
Victim in Olney shooting fears wife would attack him if released
Kay Lynn Johnson pleaded not guilty to a single felony count of assault with a weapon.
Zinke targets Glacier National Park ticketed entry system with legislation
U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke’s latest attempt to roll back the vehicle reservation system in Glacier National Park is coming in the form of legislation.
Bill would force Montana cities to allow smaller home lots
A bill heard Tuesday at the Montana Legislature aims to increase the number of modestly priced homes available to Montana residents by reining in the power of city and town governments to require that new homes be built on properties of a certain size.
Mediated agreement settles tutors’ labor dispute
Kalispell Public Schools board of trustees recently approved a mediated memorandum of agreement between the school district, the former Kalispell Tutors Federation and the Kalispell Federation of Classified Personnel. As a result, the tutor union’s unfair labor practice charge was dismissed and a grievance it filed was withdrawn.
Court upholds cancellation of Badger-Two Med oil, gas lease
On Tuesday a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld the cancellation of the last remaining federal oil and gas lease in Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine region.
Cuts undermine vital research
We are scientists from the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station where our research and facilities have long been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of the Interior, NASA and other federal agencies.
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Interior misses deadline on conservation projects
Montana Sen. Jon Tester criticized the Trump administration on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of the Interior provided a list of proposed conservation projects a week late and without detailed funding requests.
Marguerite MacDonald Schenck, 94
Marguerite Helen Schenck passed away at her residence at The Springs in Whitefish on Dec. 8, 2020, with three of her children by her side.
Daines proposes tougher fine for illegal wilderness landings
Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines said he will introduce a bill that would increase the maximum fine for landing any unauthorized aerial vehicle in designated wilderness areas in national forests to $20,000.
Letters to the editor July 20
As a local photographer, I attended the virtual meeting the park service hosted to discuss their new proposed ticketed-entry system. The press was not allowed to join the call. That should be a red flag.
OPINION: Invested in the future of news media
If you want to know who still believes in a future for news media, just turn to some of our most respected businessmen: Warren Buffett. Jeff Bezos. John Henry. Glen Taylor.
LETTER: Subsidies are your gift to Tesla & green drivers
I am sure you are aware that Montana taxpayers are subsidizing the manufacturers, dealers and drivers of electric cars in many ways. You are most likely aware that electric car and battery manufacturers have received billions of dollars in government subsidies. So you and I, the taxpayer, have helped the manufacturers of these vehicles keep their prices lower.