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 House, will take the helm on July 1. The Montana Hospital Association represents more than 80 hospitals and health care facilities statewide.
The owners of Gallatin Valley Mall, soon to be renamed Gallatin Crossing have announced the planned cost of $50 million-plus redevelopment has been divided into phases. The mall completed the demolition of a significant portion of the mall’s east side to make room for a medical pavilion. In 2023, Montana’s first Whole Foods Market opened on the site. The Gallatin Mall Group has revealed the names of eight new retailers. The list includes Arhaus, Lululemon, Pandora, Sephora, Anthropologie, Free People, Lovesac and Madwell. More tenants will be announced later.
The Red Lodge Pea Cannery, located at the northern end of the town, is getting a new lease of life as a center to house art and installations. The location will also house poetry and writing spaces, and a cafe and a bookstore. The building opened in 1911 as the Red Lodge Brewing Company.
Custer County Commissioners have added an assistant county fire warden position to the Custer County Rural Volunteer Fire Department.
3B Bagels is opening soon in Missoula at 403 N. Higgins.
The Bargain Corner, a local thrift store in Missoula has closed. It was located at 200 S. California Street.
Residents and several commissioners voiced opposition recently to having a Montana women’s prison built and operated in Butte. The opponents say the prison would rely on county services and infrastructure without paying property taxes. The Montana Department of Corrections said the prison would create about 100 full-time jobs in Butte.
The Yellowstone Airport has opened its newly constructed terminal. The 10-year, $46 million project completely revamped the airport. The airport sits on the western edge of the world’s first national park.
Data from about 40,000 people was stolen by hackers during a February cyber attack on Lee Enterprises, which owns five newspapers in Montana. The Iowa-based media company said the data breach included first and last names, as well as Social Security numbers.
The 49th Annual Montana Range Days will be held from June 23 to 25 at the Custer County Event Center in Miles City. Since 1977 Montana Range Days became the state’s premier rangelands education event.
Montana’s unemployment rate remained unchanged and near its record low at 2.7 percent in April, continuing the historic 46 consecutive months of unemployment at or below 3.4 percent and seven consecutive months below three percent. Montana has the third lowest unemployment rate in the nation, behind South Dakota and North Dakota.
Duties placed on Canadian lumber entering the U.S. could eventually help Northwest Montana markets. There’s a misconception that the recent tariffs against Canadian goods extend to lumber products. The U.S.-Canada lumber market is governed under a separate and oft disputed softwood agreement that places duties on Canadian lumber. The duties are supposed to keep Canadians from dumping subsidized lumber onto U.S. markets.
The federal government has given green light to a long-delayed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountain’s coal mine near Billings. The expansion of the underground mine, has been repeatedly delayed by court orders finding that the federal government’s environmental impact statement was inadequate. In 2024, the Bull Mountains mine produced 7 million tons.
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