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Tester Goes to Bat for Whitefish Emergency Center Maritsa Georgiou Senator Tester goes to bat for a Northwest Montana stimulus project on the Senate floor.

Two weeks ago , I posted a short story about Senator Jon Tester getting ready to test the political waters on the Wilderness issue.

Whitefish was at the center of a debate on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday morning as Arizona's two senators butted heads with Sen.

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's legislative plans for new Montana wilderness are under attack by some environmentalists and past political supporters who say it as the product of a secretive process open only to well-connected insiders.

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $124.5 billion, fiscal 2010 Agriculture appropriations bill Tuesday that includes a key Obama administration request for $13 million for sustainable food systems in countries with chronic food shortages.

In the Rockies today, public lands in Montana are the focus. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is working on legislation to designate new wilderness in Montana, although his office is releasing few other details about the legislation.

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Editor's note: Anna Paige was among a group of nearly two dozen Montanans who flew to Washington, D.C., to attend a rally and lobby day organized by Health Care for America Now the Montana Change That Works campaign, a project of the Service Employees International Union.

Senator-elect Al Franken 's victory over former senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race was among the closest and longest contests in modern political history.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press Fargo , N.D. The Agriculture Department says development of small grains crops remains behind average in North Dakota because of the cool, wet spring.

Good morning; on the Beacon this morning, buoyed by enrollment increases, Flathead Valley Community College's budget looks strong .

Even with millions registered nation-wide as bone marrow donors, there are thousands in need who can't find a match.

The Department of Homeland Security made a last-minute decision to uproot its Plum Island foot-and-mouth disease research facility off the coast of New York and move it to Manhattan, Kansas on January 12th.

Veterans Affairs hospitals will get $26 million worth of new sterilizing equipment to help clean endoscopes and other reusable medical devices, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday.

After 26 years, will this be the year Montana breaks the Wilderness Drought? Perhaps.

The staff of Senator Tester is putting pressure on the Beaverhead commissioners to support either the Partnership Agreement or HR 980, the Wilderness bill.

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has launched a Web site to help Montana contractors and businesses interested in competing for projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Closed since 1990, this mine near Libby, Mont., had produced vermiculite ore that turned out to beA contaminated with asbestos.

EPA Announces Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana; EPA to Move Aggressively on Cleanup and HHS to Assist Area Residents with Medical Care Release date: 06/17/2009 WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced the agency has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos ...