It sounds impossible. But it’s not. Where school tax bills were usually hundreds of thousands of dollars, they can now drop, sometimes to zero, if voters approve constitutional amendments in the Nov.

Senators voted Friday night and passed bills that would allow the use of CHamoru Land Trust properties for a commercial quarry, police precinct, solar farm, and emergency communications center. Also ...

Some property owners at Silver Lake say the no-wake restriction Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has proposed isn't about safety and erosion issues -- but about private property rights.