Water

At around 9:00 Tuesday morning, March 26, a concerned family member called park dispatch to report a missing person.

When three guests from Israel visited the Talk Back program on Tuesday, the subject was water, a precious resource in such an arid Middle Eastern country.

Last week the Board of County Commissioners OK’d the use of 15,000 dollars to assist low and moderate-income households with water and sewer connection repairs.

A review of Environmental Protection Agency records shows six small Montana water systems have reported lead levels above federal standards since 2013.

Fort Missoula Regional Park may look like a bunch of dirt right now, but Design Development Manager Neil Miner says a lot of work is underway.

Federal regulators have approved a plan to divert water from the Yellowstone River to help farmers in eastern Montana.

Montana will issue $5.5 million in coal-severance tax bonds as part of a $40.5 million financing package for a dozen drinking water and wastewater projects across the state.

Officials in a small Montana town say they will have to disincorporate the community or declare bankruptcy over an ongoing dispute with the Blackfeet Tribe about water and utility services.

The city of Missoula has appealed the $88.6 million value placed on the city's drinking water system.

A panel of commissioners with Missoula District Court have announced a final valuation for the Mountain Water Company at $88.6 million, nearly double the $46 million the City of Missoula had wanted to pay and a little more than half of the $146 million Carlyle Group had hoped for.