WASHINGTON (AP) Health care and environment-focused jobs will drive a jobs recovery, the White House predicted Monday even as it cautioned that the work will require better training to give workers greater skills. President Barack Obama’s Cou...

MISSOULA - Greenpeace activist Brian Jenkins arrived at one of the country's most revered national monuments one morning last week fully aware that he'd leave in handcuffs. Leaning into a video camera from the top of Mount Rushmore, and surrounded by...

On May 14, Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed House Bill 645, the Montana Reinvestment Act, into law, implementing the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the state of Montana. The bill contained a $14.95 million appropriation to the Montana Department of Commerce for gra…

Newly added provisions to the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, next slated to be voted on by the U.S. Senate, give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission final say over the siting of electric transmission lines in Western states—but not in any other...

HELENA — A federal ruling that went against NorthWestern Energy on a proposed power line shouldn't change basic plans for the 430-mile line to export homegrown power to out-of-state markets, company officials say. But the recent order has piq...