Planning your weekend in Helena is about to get a lot easier.
On Friday, legislation was introduced in the state Senate that would ensure Montana’s environmental protections are amongst the most rigorous in the world. Senate Bill 409 carried by Sen. Chas Vincent, R-Libby, is the advent of a new era of mining in Montana, where industry proposes standard…
In Montana, nothing gets us more stirred up than fish and wildlife issues. Whether its wolf management, elk hunting season structure or recreation planning, citizens of this state care deeply about their wildlife and how it is managed.
It seems like in the past few years, poaching stories are popping up more frequently around Montana. This year Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks faced a wide array of poaching cases all across the state. Antelope shot and left to rot near Billings, three moose shot and left in Antelope Basin …
As Montana’s next Attorney General, my goals will be to: (1) create jobs and jump-start our economy through promoting responsible use of our natural resources with my vote on the State Land Board, and to create a legal environment that does not unreasonably kill jobs, while protecting the ri…
When I hear the words “Montana way of life” I think of my childhood in Townsend—a community where neighbors watch out for each other and where kids are safe on the playground and walking home from school.
The Public Service Commission is broken, and failing in its public mission. More than anything, we need a PSC that puts consumers first and politics last.
Collateral damage
The polling place used to be the venue where petitioners and would-be petition signers could meet up to their mutual benefit, but the growing popularity of absentee voting has made it difficult for signature gatherers to succeed.
Stiffen fines, other sanctions
Three Ravalli County men were recently charged with illegally poaching at least nine black bears using bait but face only misdemeanor charges, having their hunting licenses suspended for several years and likely combined fines of $11,500.
To discourage future acts of poaching such as this, Montana needs to enact more stringent penalties on those who hunt and trap illegally.
The political climate in this country has become so polarized that the average person is being forced into choosing sides within their own political parties. We have politicians that are no longer looking for solutions but instead looking for a fight. A prime example is the recent decision b…
Ask any American if he or she values the rights protected by our Constitution’s Bill of Rights, and you will likely get a firm “Oh yes; absolutely,” along with a short patriotic speech. We must. We send our country’s young men and women into foreign wars to protect “our way of life” and our …
No blame game
Montanans need to be able to trust John Walsh as a sitting senator. He should stop blaming his mental state or politics and own up at once to his error in judgment in plagiarizing his master’s paper in 2007.
Read through the obituaries published in Independent Record
Check out modern homes in new communities around Helena
The first church I pastored was in Laurel, Montana. It is a small town of 7,000 whose highlight of the year was the Fourth of July fireworks. The volunteer fire department would collect money through the year for this Shock and Awe fireworks show where sometimes 50,000 people would come to watch.
Read through the obituaries published in Independent Record
The closure of the North and Northeast entrances to Yellowstone National Park following unprecedented flood damage to roadways has plunged business owners at the gateway communities into financial hardship.
The legal tactic, called parental alienation syndrome, is applied in family court when it is believed that the child’s preferred parent has indoctrinated the child into rejecting the other by using psychological manipulation.
It’s been over a year since Arden Pepion vanished from the Two Medicine River area on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Post-sale data for the June 30 event shows 865 federal acres in Montana fetching a combined $67,913. The data is presented by EnergyNet.
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A reported walkaway from the Helena Prerelease Center was apprehended Friday.
A Missoula doctor who was initially charged with committing sex crimes against patients in Helena was sentenced Thursday to at least five years of state supervision as part of a plea deal.
Post-sale data for the June 30 event shows 865 federal acres in Montana fetching a combined $67,913. The data is presented by EnergyNet.
Blue Mountain Clinic, a family practice and primary care clinic in Missoula, said it will also limit who it can provide medication abortions to.
A Republican who lost the primary for a Jefferson County state House seat has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of deceptive election practices in Jefferson County District Court.
A Supreme Court decision limiting EPA powers to steer energy companies away from coal-fired power plants is unlikely to change the trajectory of Montana energy.