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The Blackfeet Nation is beginning to build infrastructure to improve access to clean water.
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A panel of Montana air quality experts met with federal environmental officials Thursday to discuss funding to reduce harm from wildfire smoke. The state is still waiting to receive those funds.
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A federal court in Idaho has blocked wolf trapping in grizzly bear habitat. New data shows statewide high school graduation rates held steady last school year.
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Federal officials released an assessment on reintroduction of grizzly bears to the Northern Cascade mountains Thursday. Bears in Montana could be sent to Washington state.
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Federal rental assistance isn’t keeping up with Montana’s surging rental market. A study in the Helena area aims to correct that.
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Montana’s first taste of spring weather will soon end. In some cases, it is already being replaced with chilly, damp conditions.
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Nine candidates have been disqualified from Montana’s June primary ballot for failing to file required campaign finance documents.
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A particleboard plant that’s operated in Missoula for over five decades announced Wednesday it will shutter by week’s end. The announcement is the second significant blow to the county’s rapidly dwindling wood products industry in less than a week.
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New statewide data show a dip in public school enrollment for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. State education officials shared more new data this week that show a decline in schools participating in a program intended to improve pay for new teachers.
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Officials with Butte’s lone active copper mine said it has a commercially-viable process to extract rare earth minerals from the contaminated waters of the Berkeley Pit.