A new study warns that the berm at the Smurfit-Stone site near Missoula is precariously unsound, threatening the Clark Fork River and downstream communities.
Missoula’s Elena Evans hopes to shake up the Montana Public Service Commission, the powerful utility regulator plagued by partisanship. But first the Independent candidate needs to make the ballot.
January’s arctic blast brought below-zero temperatures to Missoula for four and a half days. How NorthWestern kept us warm during record energy demand reveals a lot about the utility and our complicated marriage to it.
Whitebark pine is being wiped out by a deadly fungus, ravaging beetles, and climate change. Scientists hope advances in gene sequencing and a recent federal listing as threatened will speed the hunt for trees that can be replanted and seed the future.
