Author: Reilly Lowery

The Paycheck Protection Program has been given new life just ahead of the “use it, or pay it back” deadline for the small business loans. Part of the economic response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Paycheck Protection Program offered businesses no-payback loans to cover eight weeks of payroll and other select expenses. Provided 75% of the money went to payroll and the other 25% to things like rent and utilities, business owners didn’t have to pay the money back. Money spent outside those parameters has to be paid back at 0.5% interest within five years. But the money had to

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today secured Senate passage of his bipartisan bill giving greater flexibility for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to support and provide more relief for Montana’s small businesses and workers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The bipartisan bill now heads to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law. “I’m glad to have secured passage of my bipartisan bill to increase flexibility in the Paycheck Protection Program to ensure Montana small businesses have the relief they need to stay open, support our workers and protect jobs,” Daines said. “My bipartisan proposal is the result of listening to

Conservation advocates have been working for months to build a coalition capable of pushing a multimillion-dollar public lands package over the finish line. They anticipate seeing the culmination of these efforts in the coming days. Today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to officially schedule S. 3422, the “Great American Outdoors Act,” for floor consideration next week (E&E Daily, June 1). The bill would permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the first time since its creation in 1964 — $900 million annually, paid for by offshore oil and gas lease revenue. The legislation would

A Billings woman can finally get closure and plan her late husband’s military memorial after his remains were finally returned back home after they were lost in the mail for two months. On Monday morning, a carrier with the United States postal service dropped off a cardboard box with the remains of Donald Tyler at the Billings residence of his wife, Christine Tyler. Tyler had been waiting since March to get the remains in her possession to plan a memorial service for Don, who served in the Air Force in Vietnam. “It’s been a long road, you know,” Tyler said as

BILLINGS — A Billings veteran, who died of COVID-19 in March and whose cremains got lost in the mail has been found and will be coming back home to Montana. On Thursday, MTN news spoke with Christine Tyler who lost her husband, Don to the virus while traveling abroad this March in Spain. She opted to have Don cremated and flown home with military tradition because he served in Vietnam. But on the way back to the United States, his body became lost at a United States Post office facility in Chicago. Since, her story has spread across the country.