Flathead officials sue to keep air traffic control tower open
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KALISPELL - In an effort to prevent the closure of Glacier Park International Airport's lone air traffic control tower, officials with the ...
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Infrared camera in wild aimed at Montana owl nest
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LOS ANGELES -; Denver Holt has been studying the long-eared owl for 27 years. He's banded over 1,700 of the birds and found 225 nests in ...
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Oil-and-gas impact bill advances on to House
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HELENA -- Cities,counties and schools in eastern Montana impacted by the oil boom along the North Dakota-Montana border are one step closer to getting millions of dollars of state money to help pay for water, sewer and other projects.The Montana Senate Wednesday strongly endorsed House Bill 218, which creates a new oil-and-gas impact fund that would make available at least $85 million over the ...
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Reconstruction of Bridger-to-Belfry highway nearly complete
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BELFRY -- The reconstruction of Highway 72 from Belfry to just south of Bridger, expected to be completed this summer, was a long time ...
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THURSDAYS WEATHER Freeze warning then sunshine and 68
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Good Thursday morning! The valleys of western Montana are again under a freeze warning until 9 a.m., with temperatures in the mid- to upper ...
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Montana export coal deal stalls as companies renegotiate
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BILLINGS, Mont. — A proposed deal on a Montana coal mine that supporters said would boost Asian exports of the fuel via the West Coast has stalled, as court documents show the companies involved are renegotiating terms of the ...
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Crews mop up fire near Canyon Ferry 80 firefighters contain blaze
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YORK -- Five fires of suspicious origin were discovered burning in the Helena National Forest Wednesday afternoon in the area between York and Nelson, and authorities say a suspect is in custody. Two of the fires -- one in Hunter Gulch and the other in Sweats Gulch -- are actively burning. The largest of those two is at 200 acres, the smaller at 120 acres. The other three fires, which total less ...
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Governor Bullock speaks to Troys 8th grade graduation class
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TROY (AP) -- The letter arrived in the governor's office in January, the request coming from students in a 104-year-old one-room school in one of the farthest reaches of Montana.Would Steve Bullock, recently sworn in as Montana's 24th governor, travel to the northwest corner of the state in May to serve as commencement speaker at McCormick School's eighth-grade graduation?Shelly ...
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