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2024 Big Sky, Bright Future Summit – 6/19-20 – Bozeman

Seminars will focus on the Montana Chamber’s Envision 2026 pillars: Entrepreneurship, Business Climate, Infrastructure, and Workforce with trades & apprenticeship; housing & childcare; manufacturing; business recruitment; and broadband at the forefront.

New internet ‘nutrition label’ aims to help de-mystify bills – Are you getting your daily minimum amount of “fiber”?

A new Federal Communications Commission rule goes into effect on April 10 that mandates ISPs to provide an easy-to-read breakdown of internet fees. And the new graphic has a familiar look: a nutrition label.

Montana’s Lewis & Clark County solicits input on growth policy

Over the past two decades, Lewis & Clark County has experienced significant growth, with a population increase of 15,000 people and a rise in home values by 135%.

Planned Amazon distribution center, future grocery store are signs of Belgrade, Montana’s rapid growth

As growth continues throughout Gallatin County, a 200-acre development along Jackrabbit Lane between Cameron Bridge Road and Frank Road could be the next commercial corridor with Amazon planning to build a facility here and more retailers coming soon.

Large holding company seeks to build nuclear power plant in Butte

XGen has the backing of Westinghouse and is seeking to build a nuclear power plant that would scale up to 500 megawatts, using specialized eVinci microreactors.

Can Technology Help Build Better Housing?

Cities need more “missing middle” housing. A new startup aims to help real estate developers build it.

First Cities: Planning Lessons for the 21st Century

A new book about urban planning in the deep human past explores principles, strategies, and lessons relevant for today.

NorthWestern to Host First Quarter 2024 Financial Results Webinar and Notice of Virtual Annual Stockholders Meeting – 4/26

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. d/b/a NorthWestern Energy (Nasdaq: NWE) today announced that it will host an investor webinar on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern to review its financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2024. The Company also plans to issue a news release detailing its financial results the evening of Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Affirming Truths about Homelessness

This learning brief examines public perceptions of people experiencing homelessness and dispels inaccurate assumptions and stereotypes embedded within them.

It’s Not Just Houston That’s Broke. So Are Silicon Valley Cities. Is Yours? Missoula’s Wye planning envisions 15,000 homes, small city in 50 years

The financial struggles of Houston and the cities of the Silicon Valley area—as well as tens of thousands of others across North America—have the same underlying cause. It comes to the aggressive outward expansion that cities began after World War II. They built more roads, more pipes, more infrastructure, and in the excitement of the moment, didn’t give a thought to how they would care for these investments. Let alone replace them when the time came. And the time is coming.

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