Montana’s high-tech industry is surging, growing twice as fast as the state’s overall economy over the last decade. According to a new report we've been watching for most of the summer, and released yesterday by the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research and the Montana High Tech Business Alliance, the state’s high-tech sector generated $7.9 billion in revenue in 2024. Paychecks are climbing rapidly as well—the average Montana tech worker earned $146,000 in 2025, more than double the state’s overall average wage of $62,000. MCSO photo MCSO photoSearch ends successfullyA search for a missing hiker in Missoula County ended Monday morning safely after an overdue man in his 60s was located near McCormick Peak. Currently, 35 Indigenous Montanans are missing statewide