The Yankee Doodle Tailings storage pond needs additional capacity to store tailings from the Berkley Pit and the Continental Pit. Without the permit amendment, Montana Resources would run out of tailings storage around 2032. Montana Resources mines copper and molybdenum in Butte.

Sally Schwartz and her sister Cassie have recently opened Dilly Dally Donut Bar. The shop is located between the Frontage Road and Interstate 90 east of the Main Street interchange. The shop will be open Friday through Sunday.

Reynolds Market is celebrating 100 years of service in 2025. The family-owned business has become a community staple in Glendive, Sidney, Baker and Glasgow. Each of the store’s four locations will celebrate the occasion. Frank “F.T.” Reynolds of Dubuque, Iowa, opened the grocery in Glendive in 1925.

Miles City City Council has officially awarded 24 contracts for construction of the city’s new fire hall. The awarded contracts even managed to come in under budget. The complete awarded bid package came to a value of $4,723,789. In addition to the material for the project, which was previously put out to bid with the contract being awarded to Jackson Contracting, the total value of the project comes to $5,309,650.

Weyerhaeuser, which manufactures lumbers and plywood in Kalispell and medium-density fiberboard in Columbia Falls, has completed the Energy Smart Industrial Strategic Energy Management program. When Weyerhaeuser began the program, it set a goal to reach 2% in energy savings per year.  Weyerhaeuser has more than doubled this goal, achieving 4.24% in energy savings.

Fire and Dough is one of the Flathead valley’s newest food trucks. Owner Jacob Gonzalez serves Neapolitan-style pizza at various locations. The pizza is baked in a wood-fired oven at a high temperature with a short cooking time.

Registration is open for the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce’s Lemonade Day sixth annual Lemonade Day that takes place on Saturday, June 21. Youth in kindergarten through eighth grade can learn about business by launching a lemonade stand.  Participants will engage in a curriculum covering business concepts such as budgeting, marketing, product development, and customer service.

Longtime Great Falls legislator Ed Buttrey has been selected to lead one of the state’s most influential industry groups, the Montana Hospital Association. Buttrey, who has served as a Republican member of the Montana State Legislature since 2011 in both the Senate and H...