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Whitefish, Montana is #1 – Expedia Travelers Rank the USA’s Friendliest Cities of 2021

After a year in which vacations were few or far between, what better way to ease back into traveling than by choosing a town where you’re sure to receive a warm welcome? As travelers begin to plan their spring and summer getaways, Expedia.com® is helping narrow down the possibilities by ranking the friendliest towns and cities for 2021.

San Diego Plots the Course to a Zero-Emission Vehicles Future

San Diego’s approach to expand electric vehicle adoption could serve as a template for the state as the region explores opportunities to grow partnerships and collaboration to expand zero-emission vehicle use among all sectors of society.

45 percent increase in people struck and killed while walking because streets are Dangerous by Design

The obsession with keeping traffic moving and avoiding delay at all costs in hopes of saving drivers mere seconds creates the very dangers highlighted in this report. This is why crosswalks are missing or too far apart, why lanes are too wide, why intersections are difficult to cross on foot, and why money can always be found to widen a road, even when adding sidewalks is deemed ‘too expensive.’”

Looking for a new place to live? What does a community need to tell you about to help you make a decision?

We’d like to know anything you feel is important so we can help develop something that we think will help you make a decision.

Small-Town Natives Are Moving Back Home – What do you need to know about a community?

For many young people, returning to struggling communities means exchanging prosperity for a more rooted life.

Missoula County adopts energy efficient building policy, set to pursue green tariff

“Green tariff’s are an increasingly common mechanism by which customers of regulated utilities have the option to buy power from newly developed renewable energy sources through a special rate,” said Diana Maneta, the energy conservation and sustainability coordinator for Missoula County. “A green tariff is not a tax. It’s a voluntary rate for electricity that you can chose to pay on your energy bill.”

CBS Sunday Morning Video – Experiential Learning – Forest schools: Lessons in outdoor education – Montana Western University’s ‘Experience One’ Experiential Learning

Forest schools, in which students are instructed outside rather than in classrooms, have become a learning experience for many – and have added benefits in a time of pandemic.

CBS Sunday Morning – “Crip Camp” and the disability rights movement – Disability Rights Montana

The new Netflix documentary, “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution,” tells the story of teenagers with disabilities who attended an upstate New York summer camp in 1971 would go on to become powerful leaders in the disability rights movement.

Economic developer on how renewable energy and transmission go hand-in-hand in North Dakota

While renewable energy is sometimes thought of as a feature for larger states on the coast, the best-kept model for development happens to be right here in the Midwest.

Great Falls, Montana ‘Desk of their Own’ program donates 100+ hand-crafted desks to remote learners

Troy and his Mom plan to keep the desk in his room even when remote learning is over. Each one comes with a special plaque to commemorate this unique academic year forever. Desks are still being delivered to anyone who placed an order.

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The Kalispell Chamber of Commerce is the longest-standing and leading advocate for the Flathead Valley community and business climate.

Montana Technology Innovation Partnership (MTIP)- Promoting Technology Commercialization in the State of Montana.

As the hub of learning, creativity and innovation in Northwest Montana, Flathead Valley Community College is expanding