A proposal has been submitted to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a 645-mile pipeline project, slated to pass through multiple counties in northeast Montana. According to the Billings Gazette, the pipeline would carry more than half a million barrels of Canadian crude oil per day through parts of the region for Bridger Pipeline, based in Casper, Wyo. Roosevelt County Commissioner

Jauron Laurenz Cox of Redford, Mich., is facing the felony charges in district court for criminal possession with intent to distribute meth, criminal possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. According to court documents, a deputy stopped a black Yukon SUV operated by Calvin Corne on Feb. 10, for driving while license is suspended. The

The Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office responded to 149 calls from Feb. 23 through March 1. The calls included: Feb. 23 Deputies received a report of a stolen laptop from the school in Tioga, N.D. A trace provided an IP address that the laptop was in Wolf Point. Deputies forwarded the report to tribal prosecutors. The case is under investigation. Feb. 24 Doing a patrol in Culbertson,

HELENA – Agricultural producers with land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) are invited to apply for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Park’s CRP Add-on Lease. The CRP Add-on Lease option is offered through FWP’s Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program and is available to private landowners, including those with land enrolled in FWP’s Block Management Program, Upland

Montana is in many ways a land of two halves: a western Montana of snow-capped mountains and national forests joined in political unity with an eastern Montana of wide-open plains and flatland agriculture. It’s a time-honored divide: peaks versus plains, Missoula versus Miles City, Flathead versus Fort Peck lakes. But where exactly is the dividing line? As it turns out, there’s no clear

Montana voters’ generations- long aversion to a state sales tax is alive and well, according to a poll conducted by Montana Free Press and the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Despite support in recent years from business groups that argue the state’s tax structure should adapt to an increasingly tourism-focused economy, a majority of voters polled in late December and

The Montana Department of Agriculture, in partnership the Montana Food & Agriculture Development Network, is announcing the launch of the new Concept to Consumer Course. Concept to Consumer was created to outline and give direction to Montana business surrounding food industry requirements and regulations, and to create an awareness of business considerations and processing resources and