Demand for power is surging in central Washington's Grant County, where computer server farms owned by Microsoft, Yahoo and several other business giants hum 24 hours a day. "We've got five server farms and more coming," said Tim Culbertson, general manager of the Ephrata-based Grant County Public Utility District. The public power utility uses hydroelectric power from such facilities as the nearby Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams on the...

BOZEMAN (AP) A NorthWestern Energy spokeswoman says natural gas prices are still expected to go up this winter, but not by the breathtaking margins feared in August. But organizations that help the poor with heating costs are still expecting more d...

As someone who has been part of the “green building” industry for 26 years, I was delighted to see the release of the Green Jobs Report by economists from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst...

BOZEMAN - A NorthWestern Energy spokeswoman says natural gas prices are still expected to go up this winter, but not by the breathtaking margins feared in August. But organizations that help the poor with heating costs are still expecting more d...