Just months before the program is set to expire, both of Montana’s U.S. senators voted Thursday to pass a standalone bill that would extend and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include Montanans affected by nuclear testing in Nevada decades ago.
Efforts to expand and upgrade passenger rail service both along the Hi-Line and in southern Montana got boosts this week to the tune of more than $15 million from the
As a deadline looms next week for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to put Endangered Species Act protections in place for wolverines in the Lower 48
Montana's recognition as a Tech Hub by the Economic Development Administration this month will bring new investment and jobs to the state, and could land millions of additional dollars in federal funding, backers said.