HELENA - A plan to make it harder for private property to be taken over the owner's objections has stalled in a Montana House committee. The measure is aimed at the proposed Tongue River Railroad that would stretch south from Miles City to almost the...

Montana's energy future must change, and that could mean good things for its residents, according to a panel of City Club Missoula speakers. NorthWestern Energy president Bob Rowe agreed with state Public Service Commissioner Gail Gutsche that e...

HELENA - Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Chairman James Steele Jr. says the interests of Montana's Indian tribes are the same as those of other Montanans. Steele delivered the biennial State of the Tribal Nations Address Tuesday before a join...

Recently at the Legislature, the FWP Committee discussed a bill to censure the BNSF for parking empty rail cars along their tracks from Wolf Creek to Cascade, which is tax- paying private property. This should have been a Transportation Committee iss...

A measure to boost development of small, renewable power projects in Montana, such as wind and hydro, has been killed by a House committee. The House Federal Relations, Energy and Telecommunications Committee on Friday voted down House Bill 491, whic...