NewWest.Net is very pleased to announce that Jim Lynch, head of the Montana Department of Transportation, will be joining us for the Designing the New West conference, which takes place this coming Thursday and Friday in Bozeman.

WASHINGTON — The potential impact of climate change legislation on consumers and businesses has sparked concerns in states such as Montana that get a lot of their electricity from coal.

On a cold February day atop the shiny black surface of frozen Dailey Lake, it's easy to imagine the Paradise Valley shrouded in ice. "The weather was hellacious," said Cathy Whitlock, a paleo-ecologist at Montana State University. But perhaps it was ...

An $80 million federal construction project in downtown Billings ought to be cause for jubilation among local government leaders and business boosters. But the announcement of $80 million in stimulus funds being designated for a new U.S. co...

While speaking in Atlantic City on April 6, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar stated that wind turbines along the East Coast could generate 1 million megawatts of electrical power but declined to say how many it would take. Let's see if we can help him ...