Invoking a recent Montana climate court case, many western Montana residents are calling for NorthWestern Energy to redo its energy management proposal for the next 20 years.
While households work to cover a 19% rate increase from NorthWestern Energy, the City of Missoula also is facing rising electrical costs, and a portion of that will be passed on to residents within the city's 52 street lighting districts.
With temperatures and wind chills plummeting during the cold snap that is affecting a large portion of the United States this week, one question stands above the rest.
After the recent severe cold snap in Montana and the total breakdown of the power grid in Texas, KGVO reached out to Jennifer Fielder, the recently elected Public Service Commissioner for Region 4, which contains Missoula County, for answers to power supply questions.
Missoula County and the City of Missoula have joined with Helena and Bozeman in order to pursue a ‘green tariff’ to advance their shared clean energy goals.
It was a very busy Tuesday morning for Missoula Rural Fire crews as they responded to not one, but two separate gas line ruptures within about two hours.
Public Service Commissioner Roger Koopman was incensed this week when the commission issued a press release issued by Commission Chairman Brad Johnson that Koopman said was filled with ‘trite political rhetoric and absolute falsehoods.