Time to clear the air about Butte’s Greeley neighborhood

By Greeley Neighborhood Community Development Corp. and Montana Environmental Information Center, The Montana Standard It’s not often...

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Missoula, Bozeman battle against single-use plastics, but is legislature listening?

By Laura Lundquist, Missoula Current During a Legislative debate on the ability of communities to restrict the use of plastics, Democrats...

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Judge halts Signal Peak coal mine expansion

By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette A federal judge has blocked Signal Peak mine from beginning a 175-million-ton expansion into coal on federal...

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Judge orders full environmental analysis for Signal Peak before expansion

By Darrell Ehrlick, Daily Montanan Coal mining company said the decision could cause it to close. A federal judge has vacated a decision...

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Judge blocks coal mine expansion sought by Signal Peak

By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press Judge found ‘sufficiently serious’ errors in the Interior Department’s environmental review of a...

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Lawmakers battle local governments over zoning rules

By David Erickson, Missoulian A battle over how much power local governments have to dictate housing regulations is taking place in the...

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Legislature weighs bill to exempt some small subdivisions from environmental review

By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press Photo by Adobe Stock via Montana Free Press. Lawmakers are considering a Montana Department of...

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Bill to add ‘free market’ solution to housing crisis with lot sizes rallies proponents

By Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan In Bozeman, people who have jobs are living in RVs and trying to keep them warm in winter because houses...

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Montana bill seeks to preemptively prohibit bans on energy sources

By Blair Miller, Daily Montanan Republican lawmakers in Montana want to preemptively stop any local governments from banning various energy...

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Bill would give majority party more power on Montana interim committees

By Blair Miller, Daily Montanan Republicans in the Montana Legislature – where they currently hold a supermajority – want to change the...

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