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Progress rode into Anaconda on a sharp west wind Tuesday. At a building site at Polk Street and Highway 1, gusts kept blowing down the pictures of the $10 million Forge Hotel and new Barclay’s II Restaurant, but there were plenty of hands to keep putting them back up. Best of all, the pictures were backed up by an EPA consent decree and settlement with the Smelter City, and real money. Bill Everett, Anaconda chief executive; Doug Benevento, acting deputy administrator of the EPA; and U.S. Sen. Steve Daines braved the wind to celebrate real accomplishment after nearly four decades

BUTTE, Mont. — Sen. Steve Daines came to Butte Tuesday morning, joined by Chief Executive Dave Palmer, to further discuss cleanup developments moving forward. While no plans were outlined, Daines expressed his desire to one day get Butte off the Superfund list. The Environmental Protection Agency also joined the meeting and announced the next steps moving forward. “You folks made it happen,” said Gregory Sopkin, regional administrator for Region 8. “It’s your community. You deserve better cleanup. What was happening was not acceptable, it was taking too long. The follow-through is going to be very important.” Remedial designs outlined by

MISSOULA — Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) is thanking firefighters for their tremendous efforts during what has turned out to be a record-breaking fire season across the U.S. and he’s once more promising the Senate will act on a series of sweeping reforms to improve forest management. Sen. Daines made those comments Tuesday, stopping in Missoula with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Jim Hubbard to thank the “smokejumpers” and other personnel for their work during an especially fierce fire season that saw more than 30-thousand firefighters deployed. While the largest fires struck the West Coast this year, Sen. Daines and Hubbard noted it

Washington – The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday unanimously passed a measure from Congressman Greg Gianforte (R-MT) to ensure the Sidney and Kinsey Irrigation Districts continue receiving affordable power that enables irrigation. “This critical legislation ensures many family farms in eastern Montana have access to reliable irrigation, and I look forward to President Trump signing it into law,” Gianforte said. “Agriculture is Montana’s top industry, and I’ll continue working hard to protect it.” “This is about protecting Montana ag jobs and Montana family farms,” said Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) who introduced companion legislation in the U.S. Senate in June 2019.

U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced that his bipartisan bill protecting Montana veterans and their families from pension poachers passed out of the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. “The fact that scam artists are taking advantage of Montana veterans – our nation’s heroes – and their families is beyond disappointing. It’s reprehensible,” Daines said. “I’m glad to see my bipartisan bill which will protect Montana veterans and their families from pension poachers is one step closer to being signed into law. I will always stand with Montana veterans, and will keep fighting until we get this done.” Daines’ bipartisan bill will

Montana’s Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) met with President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee- Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Judicial nominations, particularly Supreme Court nominations, have been front and center for Daines since he was first elected to the US Senate in 2014, and is now a centerpiece of his 2020 re-election campaign as well. He describes Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a “brilliant jurist and a minivan mom.” He added: “She is the kind of jurist that Montanans will look up to, someone they’d want on the Supreme Court. During our meeting, we talked extensively about our Founding Fathers’ vision for the

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines said he will meet Thursday with Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, which comes amid a debate over whether it was proper for the president to offer a candidate for the seat weeks away from Election Day. President Donald J. Trump nominated Barrett, 48, to fill the vacancy created by the Sept, 18 death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump called Barrett “a woman of remarkable intellect and character.” Daines, R-Mont., said he was looking forward to his meeting with Barrett. “I’m going to talk about the importance of upholding the rule of law and

The Trump administration’s top energy official spoke highly of the future of coal ahead of his visit to Colstrip Friday morning. U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette told Q2 News in an interview Thursday that he sees good things for the Colstrip coal-fired plant, which saw its two oldest units shut down earlier this year. Two others remain operating, but declining demand has created uncertainty. “We’ve looked at it from a number of different viewpoints at the Department of Energy. It’s part of our critical infrastructure. It’s part of our baseload power out in the West. Very important facility to us,”

As the nomination process moves on to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg seat, the office of Senator Steve Daines confirms he will be meeting with President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is confident Barrett can be confirmed before the November election. Daines has said that this judge is a judge who will represent Montanans. ”We’re going to talk about the importance of upholding the rule of law and not legislating from the bench, we’re going to talk about protecting our Montana way of life, and the second amendment and Montana jobs,” Senator

BILLINGS — It wasn’t D-Day for the many Minor League Baseball franchises still facing uncertainty for 2021, but Wednesday marked the crossing of an important threshold in regard to the future of professional baseball in Montana and beyond. With the expiration of the Professional Baseball Agreement, the contract that has governed the working relationship between Major League Baseball and MiLB for the past 30 years, it’s getting closer to decision time for the fate of the Pioneer League, which is among the short-season leagues on the brink of losing longstanding player development affiliations with MLB. Pioneer League president Jim McCurdy