75,000 ft of space to fill we got to face the facts of you know buildings Montana as well you know there is a lot of buildings here um that are just outdated we're getting answers to What's going inside this massive Warehouse along I90 and what this Distribution Hub could mean for Billings plus a remarkable recovery they didn't know who I was and they still like gave me treated me like their family an 11-year-old girl left with an unknown future after being hit by a card so she's thanking her te
am of doctors at St V's for leaving a lasting impression and somewhere charl and a some more Family Recipes celebrating Pi Day with a Billings business it has been baking them for decades the MTN 530 News starts right now from Montana's News Leader this is the MTN 530 news good evening everyone thanks for joining us tonight I'm Andrea luk and I'm Russ reinger if you've driven along I90 through Billings and youve undoubtedly seen this massive new Warehouse along South Frontage Road probably wonde
red about what will go inside well tonight the construction's finally complete our Marcus kova was there when the ribbon was cut and takes us inside to find out more brace yourselves Billings because your city is continuing to grow we've been courting manufacturers gun manufacturers and and people looking to to get out of some of the major metropolitan areas in the works since 2021 Billings Logistics 1 a multi-million 300,000 ft development is celebrating its official opening today Billings also
has about 12 millionare ft of industrial real estate this represents 2 and 1 12% of that by itself it offers space for for new companies to come into town but the question our Kelsey bogs asked in May of last year Still Remains with 200,000 Square ft empty who is going to occupy this massive space Coca-Cola built down the road um that is their bottling facility um and Amazon as you can see Amazon is not here um they are building down the street however now with the growth of our company because
of the services and that that we offer the warranties we carry um we needed a bigger space Kyle Johnson is an area branch manager for your home improvement company a national business now one of three tenants currently occupying part of the new space we got to face the facts of you know buildings Montana as well you know there is a lot of buildings here um that are just outdated he says leasing spaces like this are perfect for staying up to date with the latest and greatest without breaking the
bank I went to look at actually multiple locations um that were maybe not to the size but close but when I walked in it was like I'm going to have to spend a fortune to even make this up to par however one of the two buildings 175,000 Square ft remains untouched but the owner of the Sales and Leasing Company says occupancy is just a matter of time the reason why Amazon is coming to town is because the demand is there this gives those options to incentivize new companies to come to town and plac
e in Billings Marcus kova MTN news a bipartisan group of State lawmakers votes to send a letter to the Montana superintendent of Public Instruction they claim her office isn't implementing new law laws in line with what the legislature intended and it could have some delay on some programs MTN senior political reporter Jonathan andaran has more on what led up to it over two days last week members of a Montana legislative interim committee said they heard testimony that raised concerns about how
the Office of Public Instruction is implementing several laws that came out of the 20123 legislative session and they voted Wednesday to send a letter to superintendent El arnson EMP izing those concerns and once again uh if we are to assert ourselves as a legislative as as a separate branch of the government I think this Demands a response the education interim budget committee voted six to2 in favor of sending the letter during Wednesday's meeting lawmakers said they saw a pattern of bills tha
t opi's legal staff was interpreting differently than the legislator's council and other attorneys including bills dealing with school choice literacy interventions and school data they said the impact was consistently to delay implementation of programs I've kind of lost confidence that that these bills are going to be able to do positive and good work for students because we continually find ourselves here the letter also said OPI had in some cases failed to provide school districts with clear
and timely guidance arson did not attend the meetings but her Chief legal counsel did and said OPI has worked hard to give good guidance and that they are trying to follow the language in the laws as they were written he also read a statement from arnson in response to the committee's actions in it she called it quote a political persecution and said she was being attacked for being conservative the legislature must stand by its words re relinquishing raw law writing power for convenience would
be a slippery slope we have seen where this leads nationally agencies are unresponsive to the rule of law Montana does not want an administrative state arnson was elected superintendent in 16 and 2020 she couldn't run again this year because of term limits and is currently running for the GOP nomination for congress in Montana's eastern district in Helena Jonathan amberian MTN news a mid-march snowstorm to our South making for some tricky travel conditions Denver getting hammered as rain turned
to snow some areas of Colorado reporting as much as 30 in of snow it is taking a toll on Denver International Airport with more than 8 100 flights cancelled as that March snowstorm slammed Denver this morning most flights out of Billings were experiencing gate holds and delays lasting about 15 minutes largely because of the storm let's check in with Ed Macintosh now for a first look at the [Music] forecast as we expected most of the snow reports we got came in from areas to the west and to the
South the buildings down into the Big Horn mountains up to 18 in of snow reported around Burgess Junction where things looked a little dicey on the roadways here a Dayton 6 Ines of snow and you can see a lot of the snow as we look around cook City up even towards wiell the Livingston area immigrant area as well now this afternoon we're still seeing a few showers persisting and we're getting reports of some snow especially as we look at some of the higher elevations around Judith Gap back up towa
rds Great Falls through this afternoon in this evening we'll see some of those showers persist but as we get into the next couple of days we'll start to see a shift in overall weather pattern that's going to bring in warming temperatures over the next few days we'll talk about it in a few minutes after a traumatic crash with a car and a skull fracture an 11-year-old Billings girl is now on the mend tonight Our Charlie klips takes us to St Vincent to learn how surgeons and a stay in the Pediatric
ICU help save her life it was in this area near the intersection of Highwood Drive in Rimrock Road where 11-year-old Riley Jansen was hit by a car about 5 months ago now today it's not super bright but on that day it looked a little bit more like this and it's a day her and her family won't soon forget and I heard a honk so I jumped it all happened fast I actually tumbled and hit my head before she knew it Riley Jansen had been struck by a vehicle and launched head first into the concrete I don
't really know I don't really remember most of it the moments after are a bit of a blur Jansen had ured her school and was quickly rushed into surgery and they ended up having to like shave a little bit of my head that surgery brought on some anxious nerves for Riley and her parents including the fear that she'd wake up without hair but when Riley woke up that wasn't the case thanks to a special St V's nurse she wrapped my hair in braids to make sure that they didn't shave hair that wasn't neede
d to be shaved she definitely helped her that day a lot and me too cuz when Riley came out from surgery she gave me the biggest hug and she yeah she just she's like she did great she's fine those small gestures which included gifting Riley a stuffed ostrich and also giving her llama head surgery is what the Jansen family is most thankful for did we so many people in her in her Circle that loved her and they didn't even know [Music] her Riley is back to doing what she loves dancing but wanted to
express how thankful she was dear St Vincent's Health foundation so she wrote this letter without her parents knowing asking how she could help other kids just like her I would love to volunteer and help at the hospital but unfortunately I don't hit the age Mark to volunteer while she might not be old enough yet it's clear that this experience has helped Riley make some big plans what they did to me I want to do it to other people cuz like I knew what it felt like so I want to do it to other peo
ple and help them in Billings Charlie KPS MTN news the call for kids media thaon to raise money for the St Vincent pediatric ICU is coming up next Tuesday March 19th from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. that'll be on Cat Country 102.9 all right a head still on the MTN news at 5:30 here on Q2 today March 14th it's p day a celebration not only for those who love math but also for those who love delicious desserts and an incredible comeback sends the Montana State Bob Cats to the big dance that's coming up
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