KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 12, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Montana- Second Quarter 2024": * * * Employment rose 0.8 percent in Montana's only large county, Yellowstone, from June 2023 to June 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are the 369 U.S. counties or county equivalents with annu  more

SIDNEY, Montana, Dec. 13 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: On the ninth day of his 12 Days of Giving campaign, Governor Greg Gianforte today contributed a quarter of his annual salary to Sunrise Women's Clinic, a pregnancy support center serving eastern Montana. In October 2020, the governor committed to Montanans he would contribute his salary as governor to nonprofit organizations and charities in the state. "For more nearly fifteen years  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Dec. 13 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: Governor Mark Gordon announced today that Wyoming and Montana have filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Buffalo Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) that ends new federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. The suit argues that the RMPA record of decision is unreasonable, unjustified, and unsupported by federal law. "Instead of working with the states to a  more