Barrick Mining will report second-quarter earnings Monday morning, with investors looking to see how much the surge in gold prices is flowing through to the mining giant’s bottom line. Barrick is scheduled to release results at 6 a.m. Eastern time Monday, Aug. 10, before the market opens, with management holding an earnings presentation and webcast Read More…
Pressure to narrow the field in Montana’s U.S. Senate race intensified this week, but with a Monday evening deadline approaching, none of the candidates has shown any willingness to step aside. Seth Bodnar, running as an independent, said at a news conference in a Billings park Friday morning that he was staying in through November, Read More…
Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Montana will end the “orphan tax” — the longstanding practice of diverting Social Security survivor benefits from children in foster care to cover the cost of their state care — following a federal directive earlier this year calling on states to end the practice. For more than two decades, the Montana Read More…
Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced the Montana Motor Vehicle Division is extending its fee waiver for driver license and identification card renewals and replacements through September 30, following a strong response to the program that saw more than 18,000 Montanans add the new citizenship marker to their credentials in July alone. The waiver, originally set Read More…
The Trump administration is reviewing how millions of acres of wilderness and other undeveloped federal lands are managed across Idaho and the West, opening several longstanding federal policies to public comment through Aug. 14. The Interior Department is examining policies used by the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Read More…
Angi Bruce resigned as director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department effective immediately Friday, moving to a newly created position in Gov. Mark Gordon’s office. Bruce, who became the agency’s first female director when she took over in 2024, will begin her new role, titled “director of special policy initiatives,” on Monday. Gordon’s office Read More…
The Montana Department of Justice launched a new statewide public service announcement to raise awareness of missing Indigenous persons and encourage the public to help bring them home. The 30-second spot highlights the toll these disappearances take on families and tribal communities and spotlights four Indigenous persons who remain missing in Montana: Ashley Mariah Loring Read More…
Montana State University will host an interdisciplinary symposium Oct. 1-2 to explore the possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence for human knowledge. “The Future of AI” conference, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence at MSU, will be held on campus. Attendance includes lunch and an evening reception on Thursday, and a light breakfast Read More…
President Donald Trump held a telephone rally Thursday afternoon for Megan Degenfelder, his endorsed pick for Wyoming’s next governor, urging voters in a state that gave him his widest margin of victory in 2024 to back her Republican primary bid. The roughly 15-minute call opened with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.,” a departure from Read More…
Pressure to narrow the field in Montana’s U.S. Senate race intensified this week, but with a Monday evening deadline approaching, none of the candidates has shown any willingness to step aside. Seth Bodnar, running as an independent, said at a news conference in a Billings park Friday morning that he was staying in through November, Read More…
A bipartisan provision championed by Sen. Steve Daines to sharply increase penalties for unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information cleared the Senate Finance Committee as part of a broader tax administration package, moving one step closer to becoming law. The Daines-Cortez Masto provision passed as part of the Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act, which the Finance Read More…
Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy introduced two pieces of legislation in recent weeks — one bipartisan bill to strengthen Buy American requirements for school meals and one to extend nationwide concealed carry privileges to elite special operations veterans. On July 30, Sheehy and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced the American Food for American Schools Act, with Read More…
Montana prides itself on independence. We value open spaces, open markets, and open minds. We are skeptical of distant institutions that presume they know what’s best for our communities. That is precisely why Montana lawmakers should take a hard look at how state advertising dollars are being spent. Today, Montana state agencies hire advertising firms Read More…
As Americans prepare to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, there will be no shortage of fireworks, parades, speeches and reflections on our history. Those celebrations are appropriate. The signing of the Declaration of Independence remains one of the most consequential events in human history. Its ideas changed the world. Across the globe, they inspired movements Read More…
After a long absence from politics, former legislator Jim Peterson has returned, seeking the limelight once again, this time to criticize the Montana Republican Party for amending its bylaws. You have probably never heard of Peterson, so here is a quick refresher. Jim Peterson is a former Senate Majority Leader and President, most famous for Read More…
Across the Mountain West, data center construction has been slowed by local opposition, fueled in part by misunderstandings about the water consumption associated with the industry. Articles like “AI Chugs a Bottle of Water Every Time You Chat With It,” and “The Dark Side of Data Centers Part 2: Water Guzzlers” give the impression that Read More…
Business owners’ outlook on the environment for starting and running a company has soured even as ownership continues to correlate with stronger financial and personal wellbeing, according to the third installment of Gallup’s Pathways to Wealth study, released with support from JPMorganChase and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In fall 2025, just 17% of business Read More…
Barrick Mining will report second-quarter earnings Monday morning, with investors looking to see how much the surge in gold prices is flowing through to the mining giant’s bottom line. Barrick is scheduled to release results at 6 a.m. Eastern time Monday, Aug. 10, before the market opens, with management holding an earnings presentation and webcast Read More…
The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high Tuesday for the first time in two months, as strong corporate earnings, falling oil prices and renewed optimism over a potential agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz sent stocks surging across the board. The S&P 500 rose 1.8% to close at 7,737, surpassing its previous record Read More…
SpaceX posted its first earnings report since its record June IPO Tuesday, beating revenue estimates by a wide margin but sending its stock down roughly 8% in after-hours trading as capital expenditures came in far above expectations. The company reported revenue of $7.81 billion for the second quarter, up 92% from $4.1 billion a year Read More…