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City eyes redevelopment of Midtown parcel, removal from …
Sep 27, 2024 · Martin Kidston. (Missoula Current) A Midtown parcel's days as a Superfund site could come to an end early next year once the Montana Department of Environmental Quality signs off on the city's voluntary cleanup efforts. The City Council this week adopted restrictive covenants for MRL Park, located off South Avenue near Southgate Mall.
Lolo landowners agree to public access to Bitterroot River
Oct 8, 2024 · Martin Kidston. (Missoula Current) A new agreement struck between Missoula County and two Lolo landowners will soon provide legal public access from a popular local park to the Bitterroot River. Kali Becker, the county's open lands project manager, said the agreement with landowners Paul Rossignol and Rachel Harlan will formalize access to a ...
City approves security contract for shelter neighborhoods, parks
Sep 26, 2024 · Martin Kidston. (Missoula Current) Members of the Missoula City Council on Wednesday approved a one-year contract to provide security around the city's two homeless shelters and help enforce the city's new policy on urban camping. The $670,000 contract with Black Knight passed on a 9-2 vote with council members Daniel Carlino and Kristen Jordan ...
Blackfoot Challenge starts new process for recreation management
Oct 9, 2024 · Laura Lundquist. BONNER (Missoula Current) - The Blackfoot Challenge, with the help of the University of Montana, is gathering input on recreation issues across the Blackfoot watershed so it can come up with some options for managing recreation. About a dozen people met in the Bonner School on Tuesday night to provide their input on recreation ...
City of Missoula facing lawsuit over planned subdivision
Oct 7, 2024 · Missoula Current Published: October 7, 2024. The Aspire subdivision is planned on 35 acres in East Missoula. Skyler Cummings. (Missoula Current) Residents of East Missoula are suing the City of Missoula over the approval of a 182-lot subdivision and annexation request. The lawsuit, filed in the Missoula County District Court on September 25 ...
Experts: Affordable housing will require visionary planning
Oct 10, 2024 · Martin Kidston. (Missoula Current) A group of local policymakers, builders and housing advocates on Thursday agreed that addressing Montana's affordable housing crisis will require a large toolbox and good planning. Missoula may be ahead of the game and with code reform underway, they also agreed that it marked a rare opportunity to usher in a ...
With empty buses, Mountain Line changing plans
Oct 10, 2024 · Missoula Current Published: October 10, 2024. An empty bus sits at the Mountain Line Transfer Center in downtown Missoula Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. Mountain Line is in the process of revising their Transit Strategic Plan, which may reduce bus routes in parts of the city with low-density housing. (James Dobson/Missoula Current)
Boeing to cut 17,000 workers - missoulacurrent.com
Oct 14, 2024 · States Newsroom Published: October 14, 2024. Freezing rain covers and Alaska Airlines jets in Seattle on Dec. 23. (Alaska Airlines photo) Bill Lucia. (Washington State Standard) Boeing said Friday it would slash 10% of its workforce, roughly 17,000 employees, and that it would end production of a cargo airplane made in Washington.
Water court to assess lower Clark Fork water rights
Oct 22, 2024 · The lower Clark Fork originally received a decree in 1984, but the Water Court ended up issuing a re-examination order. That happened to several basins, and 25 are still awaiting re-examination, including the upper Clark Fork above the Blackfoot River. “There was a big flurry in the ‘80s when people said let’s go do all this work.