Plan your Costco list carefully. This small Montana community is 4.5 hours by car to any city larger than 75,000. It's considered the most remote town in the lower 48 states.
Montana is obviously a big place, so it takes a lot of resources to cover such a vast territory. There are over 280 fire departments across the state, with the vast majority (80%+) being completely volunteer. No matter if they're career or volunteer, one of the most loved assets of fire departments? The fire stations themselves.
The Signal Peak coal mine amounts to hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions in tax revenue for the Billings, Montana area. That project and those jobs are now at risk, according to a report in The Big Sky Business Journal.
There is a very important US Supreme Court case to watch this week, especially if you are someone who is concerned about the invasion of transients in places like Bozeman and Missoula, Montana.