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WEB2 days ago — Less than a year after levying a 28% increase on residential electricity customers, NorthWestern Energy is looking to recover an additional $193 million annually from its electricity and natural gas customers. Here’s what customers should know about the rate hike request that’s currently before Montana’s Public Service Commission.
Montana's 2024 Candidates | MFTP 2024 Election Guide
WEB4 days ago — The 2024 general election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5. Search 2024 Montana candidates by name. This guide includes federal, state-level and legislative candidates. County commissioners and other local positions are excluded. Show only candidates for your voting address.
Record flooding damages roads, bridges across south-central …
WEBJun 14, 2022 — Record flooding in the Yellowstone River drainage this week wrought havoc on roads, bridges and communities across south-central Montana. Here’s what Montana Free Press has been able to learn about the infrastructure damage. This story was initially published June 14 and updated with more current information June 15.
How to claim your Montana tax rebates - Montana Free Press
WEBAug 15, 2023 — The department says taxpayers can apply for the 2022 property tax rebates through its online TransAction Portal or via a paper form during an application period that runs from Aug. 15, 2023, to Oct. 1, 2023. To apply through the TransAction Portal, you’ll need the following information: Your home address. Your social security number, as well ...
How To Vote | 2022 Montana election guide - Montana Free Press
WEBNov 8, 2022 — The Montana secretary of state's website has a wealth of information on the voting process. But you basically have the same two choices you had prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: 1) cast an absentee ballot via mail, or 2) go to the polls to vote in person. If you prefer to vote by mail, all you have to do is check the box on your ...
2023 Montana Capitol Tracker - Montana Free Press
WEBMay 10, 2024 — About the 2023 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker. This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process. This is a project of Montana Free Press, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit newsroom that aims to provide ...
Who’s running for office in Montana’s 2024 election
WEBApr 15, 2024 — Incumbent Gov. Greg Gianforte is a Republican in a state that supported Donald Trump over Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election by almost 17 points. Republicans swept every state office in 2020, won a legislative supermajority in 2022, and will look to hold ground — including the governorship — in 2024.
Who was Tim Sheehy before he started running for Senate?
WEBDec 4, 2023 — Before Tim Sheehy was the frontrunner in Montana’s 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, the ex-Navy SEAL, aerial firefighter, millionaire business owner, part-time rancher and occasional political donor was a 2004 graduate of a Minneapolis-St. Paul area private high school who grew up in a lake house outside Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
Low temps, high precip and snowpack drive historic flooding in …
WEBJun 14, 2022 — Low temperatures and persistent precipitation combined with an unusually high June snowpack to set the stage for historic flooding in southwest and south-central Montana yesterday. At least five rivers in Park, Carbon and Stillwater counties set all-time records for high flows, wiping out bridges and roads and sending entire buildings ...
Bison transfers to tribes grow as state pushes to shrink …
WEBFeb 26, 2024 — The Yellowstone Bison Conservation Transfer Program has transferred more than 400 animals to the Fort Peck Reservation since 2019. by Isabel Hicks, Bozeman Daily Chronicle 02.26.2024. A large male bison from Yellowstone National Park refuses to leave a trailer and enter the Fort Peck bison quarantine facility on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024.