The city of Great Falls, Montana, has reached a $500,000 settlement with a Vaughn woman who filed a lawsuit after being escorted out of a 2007 City Commission meeting for exceeding a three-minute comment limit. District Judge Katherine Irigoin of …
Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. has acquired some of the assets of Mountain West Insurance & Financial Services LLC, a Missoula, Mont.-based retail brokerage firm. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ‘Hub International continues to look to expand in the …
Two Billings attorneys are asking the Montana Supreme Court to stop workers’ compensation investigators from practices that they say violate the privacy rights of workers’ comp claimants. The Billings Gazette reported that Gene Jarussi and Michael Eiselein, along with 10 …
BILLINGS, Mont. _ Homeowners and businesses in fifteen more Montana counties and the Fort Peck Reservation can apply for federal help to recover from severe storms and flooding that swept the state this spring. Wednesday’s announcement by the Department of …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has so far approved $2.4 million in flood disaster aid in Montana. Unusually heavy rain and a late-melting snowpack resulted in rising water and flooding across the state this spring and into July. …
Montana’s Department of Agriculture is reminding farmers that there is a state hail insurance program, and that the deadline to purchase the state insurance is fast approaching, news outlets in the state are reporting. State officials are noting that crops …
A federal safety official says it will probably be months before investigators know what caused an ExxonMobil oil pipeline to rupture near Billings, Mont., spilling about 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River. Cynthia Quarterman, head of the …
About 40 Montana landowners have reported contamination of their property by crude oil spilled from a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline into the flood-swollen Yellowstone River over the weekend, the company said Wednesday. As the scope of property damage came into …
U.S. pipeline safety regulators on Tuesday said Exxon Mobil must make fixes to its ruptured Montana oil pipeline and submit a restart plan before oil can flow again. The U.S. Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration also ordered …
Environmental officials scrambled Tuesday to assess the extent of contamination from a weekend oil spill that has fouled water supplies and ranch lands along a scenic and otherwise pristine stretch of the Yellowstone River in Montana. An Exxon Mobil pipeline …
