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Max Baucus, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, will not seek re-election to a seventh term next year, according to a Democratic aide.
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HELENA, Mont.-- Investment firm Chelsea Financial Services has agreed to repay more than $262,000 lost by Montana investors' accounts because a salesman was making unauthorized trades and collecting commissions.
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May 15- The ranks of lobbyists are growing in Washington again as Congress flirts with a possible overhaul of the complex U.S. tax code.
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BILLINGS, Mont.-- Exxon Mobil Corp. is challenging $1.7 million in penalties proposed by federal safety regulators who faulted the oil company over a 63,000- gallon crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River, according to documents released Monday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Bullock launched what he is calling the " Main Street Montana Project," which at this point is just a proposal to collect ideas. CEO Larry Simkins and D.A. Davidson& Co. CEO Bill Johnstone. It will start with local forums, the first of which will be in Billings later this month.
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*Rubio calls for resignation of acting IRS chief. *IRS to be focus of congressional investigations. The scandal was ignited last Friday, when an IRS official revealed at a meeting of tax lawyers that the agency had inappropriately singled out Tea Party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their claims for tax-exempt status.
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BOZEMAN, Mont.-- Billionaire Ted Turner can keep his Yellowstone National Park bison calves. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports in a story published Sunday that Gallatin County Judge Holly Brown dismissed a request by a coalition of wildlife advocates to overturn an agreement Turner made with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
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Backed by 10 other lawmakers from both parties, the bill is identical to one of nine measures adopted by the House committee on Tuesday, but which few people thought stood a chance of passing Congress because the Senate has a Democratic majority.
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BILLINGS, Mont.-- A Montana trucking company will pay penalties of $83,500 to settle pollution violations stemming from a fuel tanker crash that spilled 6,300 gallons of gasoline near Flathead Lake, federal regulators said Tuesday.
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Steve Bullock on Monday took action on a slew of the biggest-money bills from this year's Legislature, including approving plans to overhaul the state's pension and school funding systems. The Legislature adjourned last month and the governor is wrapping up his review of its bills.
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LONDON, May 7- U.S. coal miners have been among the biggest victims of the shale revolution and tougher emission controls on power plants. U.S. coal miners produced about 1,016 million short tons last year, down just over 7 percent from 1,094 million tons a decade earlier, according to estimates published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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WASHINGTON, May 6- The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to give states the power to enforce their sales tax laws on online purchases, but the legislation faces a tougher fight in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
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WASHINGTON, May 6- The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to give states the power to enforce their sales tax laws on online purchases, but the legislation faces a tougher fight in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
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NEW YORK, May 3- Two crude oil storage tanks were on fire Friday at a Denbury Resources Inc facility in Denham Springs, Louisiana, after an explosion in one of the tanks on Thursday night, according to company, state and parish officials.
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NEW YORK, May 3- Two crude oil storage tanks were on fire Friday at a Denbury Resources Inc facility in Denham Springs, Louisiana, after an explosion in one of the tanks on Thursday night, according to company and Louisiana state officials.
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NEW YORK, May 3- Two crude oil storage tanks were on fire Friday at a Denbury Resources Inc facility in Denham Springs, Louisiana, after an explosion in one of the tanks on Thursday night, according to company and Louisiana state officials.
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May 2- Montana- based brokerage D.A. Davidson& Co plans to acquire smaller Los Angeles- based rival Crowell, Weedon& Co in a deal that would create one of the largest regional brokerage firms on the West Coast, with $43.5 billion in client assets under management.
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May 2- Montana- based brokerage D.A. Davidson& Co plans to acquire smaller Los Angeles- based rival Crowell, Weedon& Co in a deal that would create one of the largest regional brokerage firms on the West Coast, with $43.5 billion in client assets under management.
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Max Baucus, the Senate's top tax writer, pledged last month to spend much of the time remaining before his 2014 retirement stepping up his bid to revamp the tax code. Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, chairs the Senate Finance Committee. Dave Camp, the U.S. House of Representatives' top tax writer, has been sounding as committed as Baucus.
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Max Baucus, the Senate's top tax writer, pledged last month to spend much of the time remaining before his 2014 retirement stepping up his bid to revamp the tax code. Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, chairs the Senate Finance Committee. Dave Camp, the U.S. House of Representatives' top tax writer, has been sounding as committed as Baucus.
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LONDON, May 1- The Williston Basin underneath North Dakota, Montana and South Dakota contains twice as much crude and three times more gas than previously thought, according to an updated assessment published by the U.S. Geological Survey on Tuesday.