HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced $3.4 million in new energy-efficiency grants Friday for projects in 17 Montana school districts. The Montana Department of Commerce will provide the competitive grants for Montana schools to perform energ...

Montanans like to joke that if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change. Climate change, on the other hand, could loom over us all year. The national and international debate on what to do with too much carbon in the air ...

GENEVA (AP) Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years. Thursday’s announcement by the World...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Utility officials announced plans Thursday to build a giant solar energy plant in the New Mexico desert in what is believed to be the largest such project in the nation. The 92-megawatt solar thermal plant could produce enoug...

Cascade County launched a radio station Thursday ¿ 1620 AM ¿ to promote wind energy. "It signals to wind developers that Cascade County is investor-friendly," Commissioner Peggy Beltrone said. Beltrone said it is the first radio station in the nation featuring wind-only programming. The low-frequency radio station is broadcasting from the county public works department in Vaughn, the site of a 50-kilowatt wind turbine that supplies 40...