Article Summary – Missoula County’s two biggest wood product manufacturers, Pyramid Mountain Lumber and Roseburg Forest Products, are shutting down, impacting employment and local economies. The closures will affect not only the 250 employees of the two firms but also approximately another hundred indirectly connected jobs, such as log truck
Article Summary – After more than seven years since Montana Judge Ed McLean overturned the conviction of Cody Marble, who was convicted in 2002 for raping a 13-year-old boy in a juvenile detention center, both McLean and Kirsten Pabst, who filed the dismissal motion in 2016, now state they were
Article Summary – Two teenagers were arrested after 52-year-old Nadia Vitel was found dead from blunt force trauma in a duffel bag in her late mother’s Manhattan apartment, which she was checking on after it had been empty for months. The teenagers, 19-year-old Halley Tejada and a minor, were unlawfully
Article Summary – Montana Governor Greg Gianforte’s first-quarter 2024 campaign finance filings reveal nearly $853,000 in primary election donations and another $395,600 for the general election, outdoing Democratic challenger Ryan Busse’s $417,500 in the same period. The funds do not include direct donations from the multimillionaire incumbent; however, his campaign
Article Summary – House Republican Leader Steve Scalise remains a supporter of fossil fuels, promoting legislation that makes it easier to drill oil and gas on federal lands and opposing progressive climate policies. During an interview, he disputed the idea that human-made climate change is a threat, justifying fossil fuel
