Jobs Program will Grow Workforce for Businesses
Big Sky Economic Development’s (BSED) workforce development program, BillingsWorks, will be implementing the Summer Jobs Program in Yellowstone County this…
Category: Government
Home Prices See Slowdown as Mortgage Rates Increase
Approximately nine out of 10 metro markets registered home price gains in the fourth quarter of 2022 despite mortgage rates…
Federal Funding to Address Water Contaminants in Montana
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $18,914,000 from President Biden’s Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and…
What is a Lawyer’s Favorite Chip? . . . Tort-Tilla
By Dan Brooks, Billings Chamber of Commerce One of the Billings Chamber’s public policies is to reduce the cost of…
In the counties…
Yellowstone County is Montana’s largest economic hub, made so in large part because it serves a four-state regional area. Partly…
From Center Square
Sixteen attorneys general – including Montana’s —are urging members of Congress to modify, clarify, and rescind an emergency-use authorization authority…
Feds Consider Pulling Threatened Status of Grizzly
By Chris Woodward, The Center Square U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has accepted Montana’s petition to delist grizzly bears in…
“Rich-cession” Looms in 2023
While Montana’s economy has been doing quite well over the past couple ofyears, economists are projecting changing winds in 2023.…
Montana’s Unemployment Rate Continues to Decline
Following a year of records for low unemployment, labor force growth, and total employment, Montana’s unemployment rate fell to 2.8%…
Mft. & International Day March 16, Helena
Per the U.S. Chamber’s recently released State of American Business, the worker shortage trend is getting worse, with 10.5 million…