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Update to the big rent hike at a 280-unit mobile home park in Missoula. 3 days after this story and a public outcry, the company told residents rates were going up by $50, not $150, after "conducting an updated market analysis".

4B’s restaurant in Missoula is closing permanently today, but a new 3B Bagel Company spot is opening just down the road tomorrow. The Universe works in mysterious ways

Sign that welcomed Missoula Marathon runners today

RT @metzgov: Freshman Sen. Tim Sheehy is selling his “7-acre peninsular compound�� on Montana’s Flathead Lake for $10.25 million, per a PR e….

RT @missoulian: A Belgrade police officer witnessed her speeding and wrote in his affidavit that when making a turn she "almost cut off sev….

Big few months for Missoula in making national click-bait listicles. First the Union Club made Esquire's best bars in America ("the fry cook takes your order!"), now this. Yeah pizza at Biga is good, but they should have gotten brains and eggs at the Ox

Full story on the Riverfront Triangle announcement. Project will be $100M total and will generate $7M to Missoula’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund:

Here’s the plans announced today for the vacant Riverfront Triangle in downtown Missoula

City of Missoula is announcing a “transformative” project at the Riverfront Triangle later this week. Many huge projects have fallen through, including Nick and Robin Checota’s plans for a $100M civic events center, hotel and condos. We’ll see if this one sticks! DMs are open 👀.

A Texas LLC bought a 280-unit trailer park in Missoula and raised rents by $1M more per year combined since ‘23. One resident on fixed income broke down crying. ‘Barbaric': Missoula trailer park residents get big rent increase from new Texas owners.

Should be fun gossip at the Montana Newspaper Association awards ceremony this weekend in Butte! Good timing. Cheers!.

The charge of "failure to appear" was the most common booking (25%) for unhoused people in Missoula in 2023.

Daines disputes GOP budget bill's estimated $2.4T federal deficit increase despite evidence, by @Victoria_Eavis .

Adam Hertz, a Republican former MT lawmaker and Missoula city council member, who was often vocally critical of Tax Increment Financing-funded projects (calling them corporate hand-outs), got $107K in TIF yesterday for his project:.

RT @blairmiller: Missoula hospital suspends gender-affirming care for those 18 and under due to law changes @David_….

The Rhino bar in Missoula is suing Missoula County and the concert promoter for the upcoming Zootown music festival over an alcohol sales contract:

Does a rate case (where a power company goes before regulators to seek permission to raise prices) sound boring? It is! But there’s some spicy moments. Here’s the CEO of NorthWestern Energy getting grilled by an environmental lawyer

Should Montanans pay for a power company’s decision to build a $320M natural gas power plant? Amid accusations of bias toward fossil fuels, NorthWestern Energy asks to raise rates for Montana customers:.

Days after quietly upping rates nearly 17%, NorthWestern Energy moves to raise them again.

JD we hardly knew ye.