Montana
Montana contractor gets $10.8M for Highway 387 road work in Natrona County
CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded a more than $10 million bid from Montana-based Riverside Contracting Inc. for road work on Highway 387 in Johnson and Natrona counties.
The work includes asphalt paving, fencing, chip sealing, traffic control and milling on 12.8 miles of Highway 387 between Edgerton and Wright. The work is contracted to be completed in April 2026.
The award came Thursday, Oct. 17, during the commission’s regular business meeting. It’s part of $59.88 million awarded in contracts this month, according to a news release.
JTL Group Inc., doing business as Knife River, based out of Cheyenne, was awarded a $5.82 million bid for a project involving asphalt paving, aggregate surfacing, traffic control, chip seal, sidewalk and curb and gutter work on about 8.1 miles of U.S. Highway 26 between Guernsey and Fort Laramie in Goshen County. The contract completion date is Aug. 31, 2025.
Knife River was also awarded a $1.63 million bid for a project involving asphalt paving, aggregate surfacing, stormwater drainage, traffic control, clearing/grubbing work, sidewalk and curb and gutter work on 0.4 miles of Warren Avenue in Cheyenne. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2025.
The commission awarded a $33.92 million bid to Sundance-based Croell Inc. for a reconstruction and realignment project involving asphalt paving, aggregate surfacing, grading, structure, traffic control, stormwater drainage and milling work on 8 miles of Interstate 90 between the Montana state line and Ranchester in Sheridan County. The contracted completion date is Nov. 30, 2026.
South Dakota-based Highway Improvement Inc. was awarded a $671,250 bid for a crack seal project involving crack sealing, traffic control and asphalt paving work at various locations within Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties. The contracted completion date is May 30, 2025.
Wilson Bros. Construction Inc., based out of Cowley, was awarded a $630,512 bid for an irrigation piping project involving irrigation system work, aggregate surfacing, asphalt paving, fencing, grading and traffic control work on U.S. 16 between Worland and Buffalo in Washakie County. The contracted completion date is March 31, 2026.
All of those projects are funded primarily with federal dollars, a commission news release said.
Funded primarily by state dollars, the commission awarded a $3.54 million bid to Cheyenne-based Reiman Corp. for a bridge replacement project involving structure work, traffic control, asphalt paving, grading, aggregate surfacing, seeding and erosion control work at various locations within Natrona and Platte counties. The contracted completion date is Nov. 30, 2025.
DeBernardi Construction Co. Inc., based out of Rock Springs, was awarded a $2.83 million bid for a bridge rehabilitation project involving structure work, traffic control, asphalt paving, guardrail and concrete paving work at various locations within Sweetwater and Uinta Counties. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2025, and this project is also funded primarily with state dollars.
Almost all WYDOT projects are awarded to the lowest bid, the commission said.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — The Clark Fork River has long been a defining feature of Missoula, shaping the city’s culture, economy and outdoor lifestyle.
The river is so closely tied to the area that it helped inspire the well-known book and film “A River Runs Through It.” But local conservation advocates say its importance goes far beyond scenery.
“Without the Clark Fork River, Missoula would just be another town,” said Lisa Ronald, Northern Rockies associate conservation director for American Rivers. “We wouldn’t be the River City. I think we’re known in Montana as Missoula the River City, and it’s really because of the Clark Fork River and its central role in business, in economics, in recreation, that really makes Missoula the town that it is.”
Carmen Murill, a field organizer with Wild Montana, said the river is deeply woven into daily life for people who live in Missoula.
“A lot of us would wonder what to do on a beautiful or a rainy summer day,” Murill said. “I mean, it’s really a lifeforce of town. And I think it’s pretty unique that Missoula, as a community is living and breathing on both sides of the river. It’s really like two downtowns but connected by the Clark Fork.”
Conservation groups say protecting the river begins with community involvement.
Advocates encourage residents and visitors to spend time outdoors, whether on a trail, in the woods or along the river, and to learn how they can become better stewards of the environment.
MISSOULA — Sam Forstag edged out Ryan Busse to secure the Democratic nomination in Montana’s 1st Congressional District.
Busse conceded the race to Forstag on Wednesday morning. Forstag had trailed behind Busse Tuesday evening, but he made up ground as the votes were counted into the early hours of Wednesday morning. The other two candidates in the race, Russl Cleveland and Matt Rains, are sitting at third and fourth, respectively.
Forstag leads in close race for Montana’s 1st Congressional District
Forstag spent eight years as a wildland firefighter, including four as a smokejumper, and he’s been vice president of the local National Federation of Federal Employees union. Last week, U.S. House of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, held a rally in Missoula to support Forstag’s campaign.
He told MTN on Tuesday that his campaign has been for the working class.
“We got a whole lot of people here that have been working their tail off to finally get some working-class representation in Washington,” Forstag noted. “So proud of everything we’ve done and so grateful.”
Forstag further noted he wants Montanans to be able to afford groceries, have universal free childcare and restore and expand Affordable Health Care Act subsidies.
“Hearing people’s stories and struggles and commonalities in the ways that we’re all fighting in the system that does not serve us so often, and the government serves corporations and the richest people in this country more than working people. It has been frustrating and saddening, but it has also inspired so much hope in me, like the fixes we can actually make,” he told MTN.
The 1st Congressional District covers much of western Montana, including Kalispell, Missoula, Butte and Bozeman. It is currently held by Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Montana, who chose not to seek reelection.
By securing the nomination, Forstag is slated tol face off against Libertarian candidate Nick Sheedy and Republican candidate Aaron Flint in November.
Brian Miller won the Democratic primary Tuesday for the U.S. House seat in Montana’s eastern district.
The Associated Press called the race for Miller, an attorney in Helena, who fended off a challenge from state Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, a longtime legislator from Box Elder, and Sam Lux, a farrier from Great Falls.
In the Republican and rural eastern district, any Democrat will be an underdog, and Miller will face off against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Troy Downing, who was unopposed Tuesday.
Libertarian Patrick McCracken is also running.
In the primary, Miller took 58% of the vote. Lux took 27% and Windy Boy took 16%, according to the Montana Secretary of State’s website.
In April, Windy Boy paused his campaign amid “serious sexual abuse” allegations raised by the Montana Democratic Party — but Windy Boy restarted his campaign and later called the allegations “political attacks.”
Miller is representing the victim of the alleged abuse and her mother, although he said he didn’t take on the role until after Windy Boy initially suspended his campaign.
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