By Dan Testa, 1-22-10
Good morning; on the Beacon today, U.N. scientists have recommended a
moratorium on mining in British Columbia's Flathead Valley and the creation of a conservation plan for the remote region spanning the United States-Canada border, a U.S. official said Thursday. A Kalispell
attorney is suing the Evergreen Water and Sewer District, and the developers and designers of a septic system that he says resulted in the drowning death of a 3-year-old boy in 2007. A collaboration between the Alpine Theatre Project and the Glacier Symphony and Chorale is performing the classic, "
South Pacific" on Jan. 29, 30 and 31. Montana State will pay
tribute to the late Craig Finberg of Columbia Falls during this weekend's game against Montana.
Montana doesn't have the authority to exempt itself from national gun control laws,
the federal government argued in new court filings, hoping to beat back a movement from states adopting the Firearms Freedom Act. Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that he is
canceling a new Labor Department computer system in order to save $18 million, the latest budget-cutting announcement amid new forecasts that a projected surplus is just about gone. U.S. Rep.
Denny Rehberg says he will meet with U.S. Sen. Jon Tester to talk about the plan to both increase logging and wilderness area — but wants the meeting open to the public. Federal prosecutors filed a motion Thursday to dismiss the remaining charges against accused murderer Brian Weber,
effectively scrapping a case that observers thought would bring closure to the Florence triple homicides. Missoula officials are disputing a list ranking it as
America's second-worst city for job losses. Two legislative committees are sponsoring a training day March 3 so lawmakers can learn about
declining state tax collections and their implications on the general-fund budget. U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said Thursday he has joined 150 fellow House members in co-sponsoring a
bill to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, which are seen as the chief cause of global warming. Six U.S. Marines stood at attention on the tarmac of the Yellowstone Jetcenter Thursday to collect the body of Cpl.
Nicholas K. Uzenski, a 21-year-old Marine killed in Afghanistan Jan. 11.
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