MONTANA

Montana Gov. Schweitzer battles creation of special tax district

Fallon County wants to create an unusually large district that includes the county’s oil field, and proposes to use revenue to build up a section of Baker to entice oil-field service companies and perhaps other businesses — or even an oil-processing plant — in the future.

MBAC recognizes local entrepreneurs

A nascent drive-thru coffee stand earned the Building A Business Award from Montana Business Assistance Connection at the local economic development authority’s annual meeting Wednesday.

Kalispell residents say "Give us affordable housing"

And at least 50 percent of the responses from renters said they are interested in programs to help them buy homes.

Young entrepreneur: Darian Barton opens her own espresso shop at ripe old age of 13

In between customers, Barton – home-schooled all her life – does her schoolwork inside what was once her father’s tool shed. It’s no time to be sampling her wares and nodding off.

“Gateway To Opportunity”-a Regional Entrepreneur And Small Business Development Forum, 1/10, Glendive, Montana

Gateway to Opportunity” is an exciting day of seminars that will help new and existing small businesses in Montana and North Dakota develop their ideas into opportunities to strengthen rural communities.

Montana tribes mull tourism marketing strategies

For the hundreds of thousands of overseas travelers who visited tribal communities around the United States in 2006, powwows have long been a favorite attraction but even powwows fall behind tourists’ top demands once they arrive in a tribal community.

Montana looks at worker shortage. Retirements add to the challenge.

"I just need someone to show up and work!"

Women in business: where women entrepreneurs rule, UK

The sex of an entrepreneur shouldn’t, of course, be cause for comment in these enlightened days. But, according to Gavurin, " just under a quarter of businesses in the UK are run wholly by women. Female entrepreneurship, though growing, is still rare – unless you live in Alnwick, where the proportion of businesses run wholly by women has risen to nearly a third."