PORTLAND, Oregon, July 28 -- The Bonneville Power Administration issued the following news release: The Bonneville Power Administration has announced the selection of John Lahti as its vice president of Transmission Field Services. Lahti will lead roughly one-third of BPA's workforce responsible for field operations, emergency response, and construction and maintenance of BPA's roughly 15,200 circuit miles of transmission lines in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. "John is the right pers  more

BILLINGS, Montana, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local public health authorities, the Bureau of Reclamation is increasing access at Canyon Ferry recreation area. Reclamation is working with federal, state and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a   more

WASHINGTON, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 27: Following the Supreme Court's opinion in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, today the Department of Justice issued guidance summarizing religious liberty protections applicable to organizations that participate in the Department's grant programs. The guidance, an initiative of the Department's Religious Liberty Task Force, reiterates the fundamental premise affirmed by the Supreme Court i  more

NORTH FORT HOOD, Texas, July 27 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: Sitting in a long concrete barracks bay at North Fort Hood, Texas, the Soldiers of the 652nd Regional Support Group, in the midst of a two-week quarantine, have had a lot of time to think. The Army Reserve unit from Helena, Montana, is in the final moments of a nearly yearlong deployment to Poland. Now, their days are filled with activities like long phone conversations with loved ones as they pace the   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $7 million grant to Powder River County, Montana, to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to increase economic resilience in the face of natural disasters. The EDA grant, to be matched with $1 million in local investment, is expecte  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release: As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on July 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Merle Olson, doing business as Olson Cattle Co. (Merle Olson) of Montana, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. An investigation by USDA's   more