7 hrs ago | Oil and Gas Investor
Majestic Oil & Gas MT Well Producing 270Mcf/D
Majestic Oil & Gas Inc. , Cut Bank, Mont., reports the Boucher No. 18-1 gas well in Pondera County, Montana, has been completed, bringing the total so far this year to six.
12 hrs ago | Great Falls Tribune
Browning man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter
A 23-year-old Browning man faces up to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter Thursday in federal court in Great Falls.
17 hrs ago | Shelby Promoter
"We've cussed the wind for years and now we'll benefit from it," joked Montana State Senator Jerry Black, adding, "today is an amazing day, a bright green letter day for Montana." Photo by Brian Kavanagh State ...
Blackfeet police say alcohol ban proved to be effective
A four-day ban on alcohol sales on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation helped temporarily curb traffic deaths and violence, according to tribal police chief.
Giant Shelby-area wind farm gears up
Spain-based NaturEner, a renewable-energy company that recently entered the North American market, officially broke ground Thursday on the first phase of a 210-megawatt wind farm on the hills between Cut Bank ...
HEART BUTTE - Rep. Denny Rehberg, R Mont., has restored $91,900 in impact aid money for the Heart Butte School District, rectifying money lost because of a paperwork error.
CUT BANK - Bernice M. McGlothlin, 91, a retired telephone operator, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Cut Bank care center.
BROWNING - Michael James MacDonald, 26, of Browning, a Chief Mountain Hot Shot firefighter, died Monday in a helicopter collision near Flagstaff, Ariz.
Crew remembers MacDonald as 'inspiring' firefighter
CUT BANK - Michael MacDonald, a 26-year-old Chief Mountain Hot Shots firefighter, returned to Montana in a wooden coffin aboard a Forest Service smokejumpers' plane Wednesday.
Hot Shot firefighter's body returned to Browning
Blackfeet Honor Guard and Chief Mountain Hot Shot fire crew are escorting the body of Michael MacDonald from the funeral home in Cut Bank to Browning.
Missing woman sought in Glacier Co.
The Glacier County Sheriff's Office is involved in a search for a missing Wisconsin woman.
Family asks for health information on Chihuahua that bit child in Gibson Park
Unless the owner of a Chihuahua that was at Gibson Park last weekend comes forward by Sunday, 2-year-old Stella Overstreet faces a regimen of shots to make sure she doesn't contract rabies.
CUT BANK - Glacier County Commissioners are discussing how to use nearly $190,000 in impact fees from a planned wind farm near Cut Bank .
Wind, other renewables, need Senate to pass tax credit
In recent months several wind-power projects - one of them very large - have gotten under way in northcentral Montana.
How are the Glacier County Commissioners going to spend nearly $190,000 in Wind Generation Impact Fees they received from NaturEner USA in April? The commissioners' agenda indicated they were going to approve ...
Act soon to review Legislature's public power report
The list of possible private energy developments in Montana is long and getting longer, including: Montgomery Electric's gas-fired generating plant north of Great Falls; NaturEner's 140-turbine wind park ...
Conrad ready to Whoop Up again
The Whoop-Up Trail Days Rodeo hasn't always been such a big deal in Conrad. 'There was a time 30 years ago when it was kind of on oxygen and IVs,' said Dan Majerus.
Gold mine to keep going six more years
MISSOULA - The founder of Missoula Children's Theater is proposing a performing arts high school that would be a partnership between the school district and MCT.
Children's theater founder proposes drama school in Missoula
Jim Caron's flair for the dramatic remains firmly intact. The founder of Missoula Children's Theatre stunned a committee of Missoula County Public Schools trustees Monday with a proposal to partner a resident ...