Yellowstone Region hopes to expand tourism year 'round
Yellowstone Region hopes to expand tourism year 'round By Brodie Farquhar Published 6/5/2009

Area businesses ‘graduate’ from UnCommon Sense”
Companies dependent on unsustainable business models are dropping as fast as ice shelves in the Arctic, but other small and medium-sized companies face increasing strains on their bottom line if they don’t plan for a carbon-constrained future now. Four Bozeman area experts in sustainable business operations, Laurie Francis of Livingston, and Deb Friedel, Allison Collins and Stacey Kersens of Bozeman, share their extensive knowledge through the Yellowstone Business Partnership’s (YBP) UnCommon Sense training program.

Fatal Blast Wounds a City to Its Core
In the struggle to keep its historic core viable, this city, with throngs of college students, Yellowstone-bound tourists and wealthy second-home owners, has defied the trend of declining downtowns. Main Street is a bustling place. But a natural gas explosion nearly two weeks ago ripped a hole in the heart of Bozeman’s downtown, killing a woman, leveling five historic buildings that contained thriving businesses and damaging several more whose condition will not be known for some time. Dozens of plate glass windows on Main Street were blown out.

Idaho lawmakers work to kick-start alternative-energy industry
Some alternative-energy companies have already set up shop in Idaho, but state lawmakers are hoping to build on legislation passed last year to offer state lands for alternative-energy projects, and create an "Energy Enterprise Zone" for the Magic Valley to turn dairy waste into energy, and if that's successful, create other such zones in the state.

Stillwater idles East Boulder mine
On Monday, Stillwater Mining Co. officials sent layoff notices to 526 employees and suspended operations at its East Boulder Mine, and said that if platinum and palladium prices continue to fall, the Montana mine may not re-open.

Homegrown mapping company finds its way in tough e-commerce world
Profile of YBP member MyTopo.com

Busy building in Red Lodge
New hospital, housing subdivisions popping up in mountain town

Wyo has a good plan with regional landfills
The decision to protect Wyoming's groundwater from contamination from unlined landfills by creating nine regional landfills was a cooperative, common-sense approach that won't cost consumers much, but will save the state a lot of headaches in the future.

Wyoming directory adds Teton Valley
Driggs, Tetonia and Victor are now listed in the Jackson telephone directory.