Public Service Commission

After months of discussion and a flurry of political clashes, the push for a special legislative session has lost steam. That likely leaves the districts of Montana’s powerful utility oversight commission in the hands of a panel of federal judges.

Republican lawmakers and Gov. Greg Gianforte agree that a special session is needed to redraw districts for the state’s utility oversight board. But a GOP faction was also pushing to create a special committee to investigate election integrity in the same trip to the Capitol.

Republican Montana lawmakers signaled Tuesday they support holding a special legislative session. However, they haven’t agreed on the agenda once they arrive in Helena.

A Montana Republican legislator who carried bills this session advocating for nuclear energy plans to run for the body that regulates electric utilities in the state.

A Montana legislative committee Friday advanced a bill that borrows language from part of a previously tabled policy and now could allow electric utilities to pass certain replacement power costs onto customers without regulators setting the terms.

A state Senate committee has narrowly endorsed a bill that could allow NorthWestern Energy to pass costs on to customers if the company buys more of a share in the Colstrip coal-fired power plant.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — For the third time this year, a court has ruled that Montana's Public Service Commission has ignored energy law in setting prices...

Montana primary voters held onto an incumbent and advanced new candidates in races for the board that regulates electric utilities in the state.The…

The commission that regulates energy utilities in Montana agreed to reconsider a pilot program that would allow the state’s largest utility to separate…

Edit May 20: This story has been corrected to reflect that Will Deschamps of Missoula is a former Montana Republican party chairman.Mar. 9 marked the…