Independent Record - Did Robertson and his firm have other business in Montana? Nope, just sit-downs with the newspapers in Helena and Billings. It might seem like an odd way for a titan of industry to spend his time until you remember that one of Montana s

Beer fest set for April 6 at fairgrounds
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - The First Annual Montana Beer Festival is set for 5 p.m. to midnight Friday, April 6, at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $20 and are on sale now. Salute Northern Rockies craft beers at the event. More than 75 beers will be on tap from

Group calls for resolution
Montana Standard - The public is invited to attend the meeting, organized by the Butte committee of a statewide campaign dubbed Montanans Support the Troops and Withdrawal from iraq (MSTWI), at the Elks Lodge at Montana and Galena. The group is expected to discuss a

Report: Springs getting warmer in Montana
Great Falls Tribune - Montana’s snowpack is melting a month earlier than it did 50 years ago, one of the authors of an international report on climate change said Friday. “That means that we end up with a longer summer drought period with less streamflow, more forest

Montana author Kittredge wins Kirsch award
Independent Record - MISSOULA, Mont. - William Kittredge, professor emeritus in the creative writing program at the University of Montana, has been named recipient of the 27th annual Los Angeles Times book Prizes’ Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The prize

States refraining from abstinence-only sex education
Boston Online - Five other states — Connecticut, Rhode Island, Montana, New Jersey, and Wisconsin — have dropped out of the program or plan to do by the end of the year. The program is managed by a unit of the US Department of Heath and Human Service.

A slow-motion power struggle
Tacoma news Tribune - It fits their M.O., said John Kuipers, a Montana mining consultant who has tracked the Asarco bankruptcy. This is how the game is played, and Grupo knows it. All of this comes at a time when Asarco is in better shape than it has been in

Casino overload?
Great Falls Tribune - You better have some money before you go,” added Susan Ockert, senior research economist for Montana Department of Commerce. But there is only one more video gaming establishment now than there was in 2001. And the number of machines from 2006 to

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