State Montana Financial News

By Clark Mindock

The Idea: All three of Steven Rinella’s kids were born in cities and currently live in Bozeman, Mont., but he says adventure can occur even when you’re flipping stones. The 49-year-old host of “MeatEater," a Netflix hunting show, says he’s gotten his children to the point where you can put any kind of bug in their hands and they don’t scream “EW!" Perhaps they have gotten too comfy: One recently came home with a scorpion, a situation Rinella takes in stride. “Anxiety in the parent creates anxiety in the kid," he said.

A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination has filed for bankruptcy after a judge ordered it to pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages for submitting hundreds of false asbestos claims

tech groups on Monday backed TikTok in its lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a Montana state ban on use of the short video sharing app before it takes effect on Jan. 1. NetChoice, a national trade association that includes major tech platforms, and Chamber of Progress, a tech-industry coalition, said in a joint court filing that «Montana's effort to cut Montanans off from the global network of TikTok users ignores and undermines the structure, design, and purpose of the internet.» TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, filed a suit in May seeking to block the first-of-its-kind U.S.

Heritage Foundation V.P. of Foreign Policy James Carafano on Ukraine President Zelenskyy blaming lack of munitions for slowed counter offensive, and the U.S. and its allies conducting military exercises in Australia.

Two pipeline operators have agreed to pay a $12.5 million civil penalty related to crude oil spills in 2015 in Montana and in 2016 in North Dakota

The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana

The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana

A derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people in 2021 was caused by a poor track conditions at the accident site, federal investigators said in a final report

Arizona teenager who vanished without a trace when she was 14 years old has turned up safe at a police station after being missing for nearly four years, police said.Alicia Navarro, now 18, of Glendale, Ariz., showed up alone this week in a small Montana town about 64 kilometres from the Canadian border and identified herself. It’s unclear how she travelled from Arizona to Montana, more than 1,600 kilometres away from her home in the Phoenix suburb.“She is by all accounts safe, she is by all accounts healthy, and she is by all accounts happy,” Glendale police spokesperson said Jose Santiago in a livestreamed news conference Wednesday evening.“She showed up to a police department. She identified herself as Alicia Navarro.

Fintech billing and payment platform AdvicePay has filled its chief executive vacancy with Alex Sauickie, a fintech veteran and New Jersey state assemblyman.

grizzly bear encounter” near Yellowstone National Park, leading park officials to close the surrounding area to other hikers, according to a statement from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.Though the department’s statement said the death appeared to have followed the woman’s interaction with the bear, it did not confirm her cause of death.Park officials noted that grizzly bear tracks were found at the scene, but the investigation into the woman’s death is ongoing.The woman was found Saturday morning on the Buttermilk Trail near West Yellowstone, a Montana town nestled in the Custer Gallatin National Forest just west of Yellowstone National Park. Park officials have issued an emergency closure of the Buttermilk area “for human safety.”The attack comes amid a rise in Montana’s grizzly bear population and an increase in sightings in recent years.The department put out a news release last week warning visitors that staff had confirmed grizzly bear sightings throughout the state, “particularly in areas between the Northern Continental Divide and the Great Yellowstone ecosystems.”They implored those camping and visiting parks to carry bear spray, store their food while outside and tend to their garbage.After the discovery of the deceased woman on Saturday, officials are reminding parkgoers to travel in groups and not to approach bears.Visitors can look out for signs of bears such as scat, diggings, torn-up logs and turned-over rocks, and partly consumed animal carcasses.

grizzly bear on a trail located west of Yellowstone National Park. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported the incident in a statement on Sunday, revealing that the woman's body was found on a trail near West Yellowstone, a town situated in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, just to the west of Yellowstone National Park. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported that a woman was found deceased in what appeared to be a bear encounter, based on investigators' discovery of grizzly bear tracks at the scene.

A judge has ruled that a health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after submitting hundreds of false asbestos claims

A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor

Biden has represented her country at the Olympics in Tokyo, a king's coronation in London and a royal wedding in Jordan. She gets another chance to put her ambassadorial skills to work this week when the United States formally rejoins a United Nations agency devoted to education, science and culture around the globe. Biden was arriving in Paris early Monday after flying overnight from Washington to join other VIPs and speak at a ceremony Tuesday at the headquarters of the United Nations Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization.

TikTok struck a partnership with «buy now, pay later» service Atome to offer installment payments on its e-commerce marketplace in Malaysia, the latest in the company's e-commerce push into Southeast Asia.

United States-based crypto mining company Marathon Digital is heading to court after its shareholders alleged that its CEO Fred Thiel, alongside other top executives, breached fiduciary duties, unjustly enriched themselves and wasted corporate assets.

Six states ordered Raymond James to pay $4.2 million in fines and penalties and return $8.25 million to retail customers who were charged excessive commissions for small-dollar trades.

 Reventure Consulting and Reventure App CEO Nicholas Gerli says the housing market is in a purgatorial state on Making Money.

Northern Lights will be visible from as many as 17 states across the US. This comes after storms created by gigantic storms were visible from more than 30 states in the US, including Iowa, Kansas, and North Dakota.Northern lights, which is also known as aurora borealis, is a luminous astronomical phenomenon. This is visible in the night sky. Northern lights can be viewed while looking in the direction of pole which is the closest. In the Northern hemisphere, it is the north, and in Southern hemisphere, it is the south. Northern lights is caused by solar winds from the Sun and magnetic field of the Earth. People residing in 17 states in the US will be able to view the Northern lights next week. These 17 states are — 1. North Dakota, 2. South Dakota, 3. Alaska, 4. Indiana, 5. Montana, 6. Wisconsin 7. Minnesota 8. Michigan 9. Maryland 10. Maine 11. New Hampshire 12. New York 13. Vermont 14. Oregon 15. Washington 16. Idaho 17. Wyoming. Northern Lights will be visible on July 12 and July 13. However, weather needs to be clear in order to view Northern Lights, as per reports.