As school election ballots started coming back to the Yellowstone County Elections Oce on Tuesday, May 5, it was clear that voters are still getting the hang of Montana’s new voting laws — especially that mail voters must now write their birth year on their ballot’s return envelope. Yellowstone County elections administrator Dayna Causby said her oce sent more than 1,500 notifications

A coalition of indigenous, conservation, and community groups have sounded the alarm on the proposed Bridger Pipeline Expansion, which could transport more tar sands oil per day than the controversial, and now defunct, Keystone XL project if approved. The project would be capable of providing up to 1.13 million barrels of oil per day. Opponents claim tar sands oil is one of the world’s dirtiest