Money

Federal prosecutors say a Chippewa Cree tribal leader and a former Montana legislator used a shell company to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus aid into their own pockets.

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The Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners has agreed to repay the state $42,000 that state officials say they made in overpayments to the county-run chemical dependency center.

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An ad placed by Realtor John Suprock offering money to anyone who could replace school trustees Toni Rehbein, Scott Bixler, Joe Toth or Drake Lemm may have run foul of Montana State law.

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Gas prices keep climbing in Montana, here's what to look for in the week ahead.

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With a .01% rise in the unemployment rate, Montana is back to a 5.7% unemployment rate, right where things stood in November 2012.

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The American economy created 155,000 new jobs in December, according to the latest report from the Labor Department.

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Sales of electronics, clothing, jewelry and home goods in the two months before Christmas increased just 0.7 percent from last year.

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Montana's Growth Through Agriculture program recently announced the recipients of a total of 286,086 dollars worth of grants and loans.

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If you live in Sacramento, it's time to start tearing out the walls: these homeowners stumbled over roughly $300,000 in gold dust during a heater installation.

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You may be thinking to yourself that I am a very wealthy person in order to just blow $100,000 in a single day, however you would be wrong. I am just an average working mom and our household income is probably the median for Missoula. So, you may be wondering then just how I was able to burn through that kind of money in a single 24-hour period.

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