Jim Atchison

A coal community in Rosebud County is caught in a nationwide shift away from fossil fuels and towards more renewable energy, posing the longtime question of what’s in store for the future of Colstrip?

The U.S. Department of Commerce is directing several million dollars to help with workforce and industry diversification in southeast Montana’s coal country.

Montana’s largest utility this week filed its intention to buy into a smaller share in a unit of the Colstrip coal fired power plant than it originally planned.