Daily News Roundup
June 21, 2024
Red Lodge Police Seek Public's Help Identifying Speeding Motorcyclists
By Denise Rivette According to Carbon County Sheriff’s Office social media, the Red Lodge Police Department (RLPD) is asking for the public's help in identifying two motorcycle riders in relation to a pursuit on June 16, 2024. Both subjects were riding black Harley-Davidsons at “high rates of speed through Carbon County.”
Community Group Challenges Proposed Toxic Landfill in Shepherd
By Denise Rivette A community group named Stop The Shepherd Landfill filed a lawsuit June 18 in Yellowstone County District Court challenging a license the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently issued to Pacific Steel and Recycling to build a 90 acre landfill for auto shredder residue north of Billings in Shepherd, Montana. The group claims the landfill site will store toxic pollutants and the impacts were not adequately analyzed.
The Threat of Terrorism in America Has Returned
By Denise Rivette Will Selber, a recently retired strategic-level terrorism analyst for the United States, has provided his analysis (link below) of the threats of Islamic terrorism to the U.S. in the wake of the arrest on June 11 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of eight Tajik nationals with ties to the Islamic State. “Most importantly,” he writes, “some of the men crossed the southern border, requested asylum, and passed the initial screening. It wasn’t until members of the American intelligence community sniffed out some extremist rhetoric on social media that federal law enforcement scrambled to apprehend the men.”
Senate Passes Fort Belknap Water Compact Settlement That Includes Milk River Project Rehab Funds
By Blair Miller for the Daily Montanan With late-season irrigation now under threat along the Hi-Line after the failure of the St. Mary Canal earlier this week, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to pass a long-awaited water compact settlement with the Fort Belknap Indian Community that includes $275 million to rehabilitate the canal as part of the Milk River Project.