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Montana’s Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority

• Hi-Line Community Engagement Report Highlights Strong Regional Support for Restoring Passenger Rail

  A new Hi-Line Community Engagement Report highlights strong public interest in restoring passenger rail service across northern Montana and reconnecting communities to the national passenger rail network.

Flathead Valley Community College Montana

• Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) Selects ACCT Searches to Lead the Hunt for Next President

  ACCT Searches, a group affiliated with the Association of Community College Trustees, will head the nationwide search for Jane Karas’ replacement. The board has yet to finalize a timeline.

Great Falls Montana Development Alliance

• A proposed Touro law school in Great Falls, Montana aims to ease the region’s attorney shortage.

  Representatives from Touro Law School have engaged with the Cascade County Bar Association to explore establishing a law program in Great Falls. This initiative addresses a growing structural challenge: an aging legal workforce and insufficient numbers of younger attorneys in eastern Montana.

• GFDA Upcoming Business Trainings and Events

  We can help in your success! Check out the upcoming trainings

Prospera Business Network

• Prospera Navigator 3/10/26

  View our Training & Events Calendar

University of Montana College of Business

• Griz Paths Series Connects Students with Successful University of Montana Alumni

  “Griz Paths has become one of our most effective ways to connect Grizzlies at every stage of their career journey,” said LeAnn Layton, UM associate vice president for alumni and community relations. “These conversations continue to create real value for alumni and students alike, offering honest insights, career clarity and the power of shared Griz connections.”

Montana Business

• How the Fort Peck Tribes in Montana are building a bison blueprint

  Tribally run management and a deal with Yellowstone National Park are helping forge a future for coexisting with the iconic American bison.

Montana Housing

• Salary Needed To Afford a Luxury Home in Every State – Montana #10

  Before purchasing a luxury home, though, it helps to know just how much you’ll need to pay — and how much you need to earn yearly in order to do so. To that end, MoneyLion launched a study to determine the average monthly mortgage costs of luxury homes in every state and the annual minimum salary needed to comfortably afford those mortgages. From that study, MoneyLion crafted a list of luxury home costs in every state, from most expensive to least.

Visit Montana

• Beyond the Slopes, a World-Class Birding Event is Hiding in Montana this March –  Wild Wings Festival on March 20–22, 2026.

  At Freezout Lake, roughly 300,000 snow geese and around 10,000 tundra swans descend on the wetlands during March, turning a quiet stretch of prairie between Great Falls and Choteau into a “snowstorm of wings.”

• New report finds Montana museums drive local spending, tourism and education. ITRR is hiring….

  Visitor satisfaction was also strong. Nearly 92% of respondents reported having an “excellent or outstanding experience.”

• I’d like to personally invite you to Great Falls on April 7 for the Montana Fundraising Summit.

  This year, we’re cutting through the noise and building the Summit around learning and sharing what is actually working in communities across our state.

Hellgate Venture Network

• HVN March Monthly Meet-up: Speaker Highlight: Clifford Bradley, CEO Montana Bioagriculture – 3/19

  At Montana BioAg, we work with naturally occurring fungi to develop products and applications for agriculture, forestry, and bioremediation. Montana BioAg does not sell anything; we license products and technology to established companies or spin out new start-ups.

Montana Energy and Transportation

• This iceberg was once the biggest in the world -1,540 sq miles . Now it has just weeks left

  “To watch it be so stable for so long, and then just disintegrate over one year, has been fascinating,” says Dr Catherine Walker of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, who was born the same year as A23a.

VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence, The Internet of Things and Montana

• Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room.

  Nearly 100 years after Bell’s first phone call, Motorola engineer Marty Cooper made the first cellphone call. Listen to his story on our “1440 Explores” podcast here.

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