MT Debt Consolidation in Montana

Cutbacks at Lee Enterprises newspapers in Montana continue today with six newsroom layoffs at the Ravalli Republic in Hamilton.

HELENA - U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg said Thursday that he believes John McCain will carry Montana in November and that the Republican presidential candidate can afford to focus on more competitive states.

Started a column about my latest adventures in home plumbing repair but got too distraught to finish it before going through additional "mild brandy rehabilitation" treatments.

Federal investigators said Wednesday they're perplexed by the jet engine fire that preceded the fatal crash of an air tanker near Reno this week because there's been no known similar incident before in that ...

A year after its budget was stretched by an intense fire season, Montana's Department of Natural Resources and Conservation is enjoying the respite - and less red ink - of a summer with few big blazes.

Secretary of State Brad Johnson is kicking off National Voter Registration Month by urging Montanans to help their friends and family members register to vote.

Every day, thousands of individuals across Montana struggle to breathe due to a common chronic disease: asthma.

America remains the land of opportunity, said Montana's lone African-American delegate, 26-year-old Anthony Jackson of Helena moments before Sen.

For nearly 200,000 voters in Montana this fall, Election Day may come early, via absentee ballots - and campaigns are adjusting to this new reality.

Advanced genetic tests have reconfirmed that the black wolf-like animal killed on private land in Eastern Montana last fall was a wolf-dog hybrid, but state wildlife officials still don't know where the animal ...

On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets.

The deadly disease sylvatic plague was discovered in May in a huge prairie dog town in the Conata Basin. The black-tailed prairie dog is the main prey of ferrets, and the disease quickly killed up to a third of the area's 290 ferrets along with prairie dogs.

The disease stopped spreading with the arrival of summer's hot, dry weather, but it poses a serious threat to efforts to establish stable populations of one of the nation's rarest mammals, said Scott Larson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Pierre.

A Cessna prepares to touch down at the Schafer Meadows airstrip in the Great Bear Wilderness.

The presidential election this year is a win-win for Montana, said Bob Brown of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Missoula.

Obama has now visited the Treasure State 5 times, but Montanans are still waiting for his Republican opponent to show up.

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, an emerging star in cowboy boots at the Democratic convention, roused Florida delegates at their breakfast meeting this morning and even made them bark.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, speaking Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, called on America to wean itself from foreign oil by investing in alternative energy and criticized Sen.

Montanans saw a side of Gov. Brian Schweitzer they don't often see Tuesday night, said the state's Republican Party chairman - that of partisan attack dog.

Workers are installing new digital voting systems in the Montana House and Senate chambers in Helena.

LINCOLN - Rick Rowley has gone a long way in his varied artistic and business career - half way around the world to China.

The United States Department of Energy has selected Montana as one of six states to participate in the inaugural year of the Wind for Schools Program.