NorthWestern Energy, Montana-Dakota Utilities ask PSC for new rate hikes
NorthWestern Energy crews installed a new nesting platform in Augusta in June to encourage raptors to nest in a safe location. (Provided by NorthWestern Energy for the Daily Montanan.) NorthWestern…
Preventable heat injuries and deaths rising in New Mexico
The sunset as seen from off State Highway 518 towards Mora is clouded with smoke from the fires in the mountains on June 13, 2022. Extreme heat is deadly and…
Auditor says amended contract for ESA program administration doubled cost
Iowa Auditor of State Rob Sand held a news conference Feb. 15, 2024 to discuss the impacts of a 2023 law restricting the office’s access to certain documents. (Photo by…
Hydrothermal explosion causes damage in area of Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park officials investigate after a hydrothermal explosion in Biscuit Bay on July 23, 2024. (Photo courtesy Yellowstone National Park) A hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park damaged a…
Yellowstone hydrothermal explosion: ‘We were terrified’
The woman who shot a video of a hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning told WyoFile she and her family were terrified as the blast sent boiling…
Kim Davis legal counsel moves to make her appeal a springboard for overturning marriage rights
Kim Davis, then the Rowan county clerk, waved to supporters at a rally outside Carter County Detention Center on Sept. 8, 2015 in Grayson. Davis was ordered to jail for…
DEI bullying assumes people didn’t earn their jobs
(Dusan Stankovic via Getty Images) This commentary originally appeared in the Indiana Capital Chronicle. One of the most disheartening things I saw following the failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump…
Alaska’s Democratic U.S. House member withholds support for Kamala HarrisÂ
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, speaks on Jan. 4, 2024, at a town hall meeting on the possible Albertsons-Kroger grocery merger. The meeting was held at the Teamsters Local 959…
New Pa. law strengthens protections for those targeted by lawsuits for speaking out in public
(Getty Images) Lawsuits designed to intimidate and silence people who exercise their First Amendment rights could have costly consequences in Pennsylvania under legislation signed into law July 18. Civil rights,…
State police warned Secret Service about Trump shooter, Pennsylvania chief says
Law enforcement agents stand near the stage of a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty…