Transforming Montana’s renewable energy law is the focus of two bills before lawmakers that have utilities lining up to counter claims that the changes will stall renewable project development in the state. Senate Bill 403 aims to soften Montan...

Higher-than-expected costs and logistical challenges prompted city officials in recent months to shift $300,000 of parks-improvement bond funding, approved by voters in 2007, from Kindrick Legion Field to the nearby Centennial Park and Memorial ...

Dave Ballard is president of Ballard Petroleum Holdings and president of the Montana Petroleum Association. His Your Turn’ article last week stated, “none of our science points to CO2 as a key driver in climate change.” Perhaps th...

Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to create and retain jobs, to sustain essential public services through the recession and to ensure that the safety net doesn't unravel for needy Americans. Gov. Brian Schweitzer's pr...

WASHINGTON - There are without a doubt competing views of the appropriate role of government in the United States. On the one hand you have people, like me, who believe the role of government, generally, is to do for the people what they cannot do fo...