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Report: US Pedestrian Death Rate Increased 9x Faster Than Population During COVID

U.S. drivers killed 3,434 people on foot in the first six months of 2022, an increase of 5 percent over the same period the prior year — and a staggering 18 percent increase over the number of walkers who died in early 2019, the last year before the pandemic, according to the latest fatality estimates from the Governors Highway Safety Association.

How affordable is child care near me? Search our database of day care prices by county

One of the largest struggles families in the U.S. face is finding quality child care they can afford. The search for a center or home-based provider can be overwhelming, and the price tag can be shocking. 

Small town solution for daycare may be a blueprint for other communities.

More than half of Americans struggle to find available and affordable childcare, but one small Minnesota town found a small solution that might be a blueprint for other cities. 

Will Utah’s Great Salt Lake disappear? What about the arsenic?

2.5 Million people are at risk

New Method Could Make Charging EV’s While Driving a Reality

The new approach, which takes cues from NASA’s methods for sending data through deep space, could revolutionize EV infrastructures by enabling electric vehicles and autonomous factory machines to charge while driving.

Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner tells Montana State students they hold the key to world peace, free speech. MSU Leadership Institute

“I have no hope in anyone with the exception of 20-, 25-, 30-year-olds,” Muratov said through an interpreter during a mid-day question-and-answer session in the Strand Union Building. “Your generation is connecting to the future.”

How Vehicle Ownership Impacts Roadway Design

New research assesses the potential implications of reduced car ownership on the design of roads and communities.

DOE Announces $50 Million for Tribal Clean Energy Projects

Applications are due May 16, 2023, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. DOE’s Office of Indian Energy will host an informational webinar on February 28, 2023, to provide interested applicants with more information on the FOA and how to apply.

Want People To Support Climate Legislation? Explain It In Everyday Language

How people think and talk about our steadily warming world has a lot to do with the language we embrace to describe it.

Tiny cars are all the rage in European cities. Could they ever work in America?

‘Light electric vehicles’ are cheaper and more energy efficient than even standard EVs. But U.S. road regulations and city design may be holding them back.

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Big Sky EDA- Building Businesses and Creating Jobs in the Greater Billings, Montana area

Big Sky Commerce is an integrated provider of merchant credit card transaction processing services, check processing services, Internet payment gateways, related software application products and value-added services.

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