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Bondholders left holding the bag for vacant Montana prison The holders of the $27 million in uninsured, unrated municipal bonds will lose their investment in the private prison built in Hardin if a tenant can't be found for the Montana facility. Billings Gazette; Oct. 18 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
The Lazy JC Drug and Hardware store in Melstone is the Montana town's longest operating business, and residents of the community have been working for three years on a plan to keep the store operating as a cooperative when the store's owner decides to step aside. Billings Gazette; Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Navajo Nation lawmakers have full agenda for fall session The 88 members of the Navajo Nation Tribal Council meet this week in New Mexico for their quarterly session, and this session they have a lot to consider, including a bill to take full control of the Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Farmington Daily Times (AP); Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana, N.D. senators sponsor Indian health care bill Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester was among the 15 senators co-sponsoring legislation to upgrade health care systems for Native Americans and to ensure an adequate amount of funding for those programs. Great Falls Tribune; Oct. 18 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Wyoming mulls new rules on antler collection Concerns that over-zealous antler collectors are putting the run on animals already weakened by a winter of wallowing in deep snow and surviving on sparse forage, Wyoming game officials are contemplating new regulations for antler collection, although some say the such rules would only stop scrupulous collectors. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana closes hunting area due to grizzly bears Grizzly bears attracted to the carcass of a grizzly bear shot by a hunter in the Gallatin National Forest near Cooke City, Mont., forced state and federal officials to shut down the area to hunters. Billings Gazette; Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Grizzly bear mauls hunters in southeast British Columbia A grizzly bear charged the tent where two hunters were sleeping in the East Kootenays region of British Columbia last week and mauled them before they were able to chase it off; the men hiked out and were treated for wounds to their forearms. Vancouver Sun; Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Utah legislators to hear two sides of climate change On Wednesday, members of the Utah Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee will hear from University of Utah Professor Jim Steenburgh, who led a team of climatologists who warned two years ago that climate change and human activities were linked, and from Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist who gained prominence for his stance that climate change isn't happening. Salt Lake Tribune; Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
BLM seeks more public input on Idaho wind-power project On Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management opened up a 30-day comment period on the proposed China Mountain project, a 185-turbine wind farm planned in the Idaho desert southwest of Rogerson. Twin Falls Times-News; Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado city builds power park on methane plans Greeley received a $82,000 grant from Colorado to build a clean-energy park, which will eventually turn animal waste from feedlots into power which will be used to run a cheese factory. Denver Post (AP); Oct. 19 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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