Highwood News

The holiday weekend got off to a rough start on the roads between Belt and Highwood.

Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative lost $9.1 million of its investment in a power project planned east of Great Falls when construction of the coal-fired power plant never materialized, making it an 'impaired asset.' Southern Montana, which has invested $40 million in the Highwood Generating Station, now plans to ...

Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative plans to "write down" $9.1 million in losses in a coal-fired power plant planned east of Great Falls that never materialized.

HELENA - A long-running legal battle over construction of a controversial power plant east of Great Falls landed before the Montana Supreme Court Wednesday morning with attorneys for Cascade County and the developer pitted against landowners and a statewide conservation organization who oppose it.

Expect more animated Great Falls City Commission meetings beginning the first week of January, when its new members will be sworn into office.

The Montana Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments next month in a Cascade County rezoning case involving construction of a power plant east of Great Falls.

In small schools like Highwood and Centerville, where they're close to Great Falls, but just far enough away, students are getting opportunities they might not otherwise be afforded through afterschool programs.

Questions about the city of Great Falls selling electricity and the issue of property taxes elicited the sharpest answers from four City Commission and two mayoral candidates at a 1 1/2-hour forum Wednesday.

Note:This is the last in a four-part series of city election stories. Six people are running for Great Falls City Commission seats in the Nov.

Supporters of new sources of electricity in northcentral Montana got some good new s this past week when the state Department of Environmental Quality gave preliminary approval to an air quality permit for the revisedHighwood Generating Station.

The state Department of Environmental Quality has again given a Billings-based developer preliminary approval for an air quality permit for the proposed Highwood Generating Station.

Not everyone makes money on investments, as the city of Great Falls is discovering.

FORT BENTON - John Foster Harris, 75, a retired farmer and former educator, died of pancreatic cancer Sunday at a Great Falls nursing home.

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MONTANA CITY - Donald T. Wigen, 87, a long time Highwood resident, died of natural causes Wednesday at Country Life Assisted Living facility in Montana City.

A new communications antenna and radio site was installed atop Mount Baldy on Friday.

A new project will bring communications for both Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Montana National Guard into the 21st century.

The communities of Fort Benton, Geraldine, Big Sandy and Highwood came together this weekend for their end of summer celebration.

The state has revoked the air quality permit Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission needed to build a 250-megawatt coal-fired power plant east of Great Falls - at the request of SME, not critics of the plant.

The state has revoked the air quality permit Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission needed to build a 250-megawatt coal-fired power plant east of Great Falls - at the request of SME, not critics of the plant.