OMAHA, Nebraska, March 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Jason Taylor as the new superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana. Taylor is an experienced resource and land management leader who currently serves as the Director of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute (ALWRI) for the United States Forest Service (USFS) located in Missoula, Montana. He will ass  more

BILLINGS, Montana, March 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release: A Lodge Grass woman convicted in a large-scale, multi-state methamphetamine trafficking operation she ran from her home on the Crow Indian Reservation to supply drugs across the state and to four Montana Indian reservations was sentenced today to 24 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. The defendant, Fre  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57002) involving Monticello Nuclear Plant, Montana: * * * Facility: Monticello Region: 3 State: MN Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] GE-3 NRC Notified By: Pete Bruggeman HQ OPS Officer: Sam Colvard Notification Date: 03/01/2024 Notification Time: 17:27 [ET] Event Date: 03/01/2024 Event Time: 13:45 [CST] Last Update Date: 03/01/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 50.72(  more

CHARLO, Montana, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on March 4, 2024: Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced the availability of a draft supplemental Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed construction of replacement facilities to administer the Northwest Montana Wetland Management District. In 2022, the Service published an EA for the construction of new facilities, selecting acquisit  more