Agency seeks public input on climate The Environmental Quality Council is seeking public comment on a draft climate change report anda dozen pieces of related draft legislation. The draft report and related legislation is available for public comment through Aug. 22. Comments will be compiled and presented to the EQC at a Sept. 8-9 meeting in Helena. The council will consider revisions to the report and draft legislation at that time. The EQC also will decide whether it wishes to pursue...

Citing extreme heat, fires, a human population boom and other changes on the landscape, Montana House Majority Leader Carol Williams called Tuesday for federal, state and local lawmakers to take a stronger stand on climate change. “If this was ...

For more than 40 years, Hellgate Local 885 has represented, and continues to represent, the workers of the Smurfit-Stone Missoula mill. The union’s relations with the company have varied through the years from cooperation to the threat of strik...

GREAT FALLS - Just over 100 landowners will receive checks this week totaling $551,000 for enrolling land in a carbon credit program, the Montana Farmers Union said. The program links landowners with no- or low-till or seeded land to industrial ...

Some 93 percent of voters in Montana want the country to end its dependence on oil, according to survey results released Tuesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists. In six other Western states, 91 percent want the same, the poll shows. “I wou...