HELENA- Montana Attorney General Tim Fox was elected vice president of the National Association of Attorneys General. The vote was Thursday, while the association met for its annual Summer Meeting in Big Sky. Fox said he was “humbled and honored” by the vote. The association helps the 56 state and territorial attorneys general fulfill the Read More…
MISSOULA – Wildfires in Montana are nothing new. Last year, the Treasure State saw a bad fire season with more than 114,000 acres burned. In an attempt to better understand how wildfires may affect weather, climate and even health, a group of University of Montana scientists will fly directly into the smoke of a wildfire. Read More…
It seems like hardly a day goes by when you don’t see someone arrested in Gallatin County for a methamphetamine-related offense. It could be when a Bozeman police officer pulls over a driver for a traffic offense and discovers a small baggie with a crystalline substance and a residue-covered pipe. It could be when Read More…
Missoula tech firm Submittable announced a $5 Million Series A investment led Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, True Ventures. Submittable is a cloud-based submission platform that was founded in 2010. The company now has more than 35 employees. “We are positioned as the matching and reviewing platform for any organization looking for work or any Read More…
Jenni “JWoww” Farley is dealing with a completely different situation these days — motherhood. The 31-year-old, who previously chronicled her hard-partying adventures with a side of gym, tan, laundry on MTV’s “Jersey Shore” has a new life these days. In 2015 she tied the knot with longtime beau Roger Mathews. The couple welcomed a baby Read More…
Kate Bock has garnered fame as a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, but the 24-year-old Canadian pinup admitted to having insecurities over her looks. “You can always see in another girl something that you wish you had, and I even find it funny: I have model friends and I’ll see them in a certain way, and Read More…
The Curiosity Mars Rover is now smart enough to pick its own targets for exploration, according to a new study. The secret to Curiosity’s better brain was a software update sent from the ground in October 2015, called the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS). This was the first time artificial intelligence had been Read More…
Have you noticed this new trend on your news feed recently? Instagrammers are posting photos of their “hip dips,” the slight inward curve just below each hip bone. Instead of bashing this part of their anatomy, these real women are embracing it the way body-positive bloggers and many celebs also celebrate their cellulite, stretch marks, bulges, and other so-called physical flaws. RELATED: THESE ARE THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES YOU Read More…
The shoe finally dropped for Cardinal George Pell. After an investigation that ran for almost two years, Australian prosecutors charged the Vatican’s chief of financial affairs with “historical sexual assault offenses” related to his time as a priest decades ago. Pell protested his innocence and declared that he will return to his native country to Read More…
This particular attack was prompted by a screw-up at CNN, a favorite punching-bag for President Donald J. Trump, but was quickly extended to the whole of the political press. It’s a timeworn strategy of authoritarian regimes. As Jill Lepore recounted in the June 5 issue of the The New Yorker, Edmund Taylor, writing in 1940 of Nazi strategy Read More…
During a speech in Iowa last week, in the middle of his red-meat calls for a border wall and tougher immigration enforcement, President Trump called for something decidedly less sanguinary: “a total rewrite of our immigration system into a merit-based system.” Read Full Article » Click here to view the full story
As Americans cast their eyes beyond their shores, there is much that bids for their gaze: a dynamic China, steadily expanding its military reach in the South China Sea and beyond; U.S. forces in the Middle East, trying to try to deal a decisive blow to ISIS; a frayed Europe, struggling to keep its union Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles As Senate Republican leaders scramble to rework legislation to reform Obamacare, which stalled Tuesday in advance of a planned vote, others in their party are celebrating: namely, a handful of Republican governors who were among the powerful forces working against the bill. Behind the scenes and in public, governors from Read More…
X Story Stream recent articles The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing. The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets started hasn’t succeeded either, despite serial efforts to sue over Read More…
President Trump seems to be confirming something I wrote a couple weeks ago — the White House may be bugged. When Trump finally admitted recently that he doesn’t have tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, the president also hinted that the US intelligence and law enforcement officials might have his office Read More…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But is this what the survey is actually telling us? To us as researchers studying science communication and public understanding of science, factors in the survey itself and in the way the media report on it raise questions about Read More…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., June 27, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Click here to view the full story
DALLAS, June 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST), the parent company for TXU Energy and Luminant, plans to report its second quarter 2017 financial and operating results on Friday, August 4, 2017. Management will present the results during a webcast beginning at 11 a.m. EDT (10 a.m. CDT) on Friday, August 4, 2017. The Read More…
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania, June 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Converde Energy USA, Inc. (OTC PINK: XFUL) (the “Company” or “XFUL”), a diversified energy company, announces today the appointment of Mr. Josh C. Hickman as the President of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Gilbert Oil and Gas, LLC. The Company is also pleased to announce that Mr. Hickman Read More…
MONTRÉAL, June 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Ovivo Inc. (« Ovivo »), via sa filiale à 100 % Ovivo UK Limited, s’est fait octroyer un contrat majeur d’un montant supérieur à 27 millions de livres Sterling par EDF Energy, dans le but de fournir un système de tamisage de prise d’eau de refroidissement pour la nouvelle centrale nucléaire de Read More…