Calling it unfathomable that a Native American child could go missing for two weeks before the FBI alerted the public, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is asking federal officials to explain their response to the disappearance of Northern Cheyenne girl Henny Scott. The 14-year-old Scott who was found dead Dec. 28, covered in snow about 100 Read More…

The Rosebud County Coroner’s office has identified the victim of a fatal Sunday morning crash in Rosebud County as Forsyth resident Landen Moreland. Moreland, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck on Reservation Creek Road, west of Forsyth and between Interstate 94 and Old Highway 10, according to the Montana Highway Patrol. Read More…

BOZEMAN — A 30-year-old Montana ranch worker has died in an accident involving a hay bale. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim of the accident last Thursday as Kelsey Driscoll. The office says it received a call around 7:30 a.m. Thursday reporting that a woman was trapped between a hay bale and a Read More…

Two top Crow Tribe officials on Thursday moved to recall the tribe’s chairman, Alvin “A.J” Not Afraid, who questioned whether their actions complied with the tribe’s constitution. The recall petition, signed by Vice-Chairman Carlson “Duke” Goes Ahead and Vice-Secretary Shawn Backbone, also seeks to remove the other elected executive official, R. Knute Old Crow. It Read More…

Montana will get a new $4.2 million, one-year preschool grant, but it won’t go toward paying for the new seats that a previous $10 million per year grant created.  The state’s $40 million, four-year preschool development grant is expiring after this school year. It’s created more than 1,000 high-quality preschool slots. The new grant is Read More…

When Ryan Booth began his research into Indian scouts who were recruited by the U.S. Army, he discovered only two military forts had complete records of the scouts: Fort Apache in Arizona and Fort Keogh at Miles City. “Other places had scouts, but their records were lost or burned,” said Booth, a Ph.D. candidate in Read More…

BOZEMAN — As the sun rose over the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, Linda Carney bent over a toilet, windshield scraper in hand. “It’s the plumber’s daughter in me,” she joked, having used the scraper to remove frozen human waste from the side of the toilet. Carney was one of about 10 Gardiner community Read More…

LIVINGSTON — The owners of a horse shot to death in southwestern Montana are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest. Owner Tracy Gubler says she found the body of the 14-year-old horse named Wyatt around 10 a.m. on New Year’s Day in its pasture just outside Livingston. Friends and family members have Read More…

A high-speed pursuit Friday night east of Crow Agency ended in a single-vehicle rollover that killed one person and injured two others. The crash involving a 2003 red Cadillac Catera happened at about 10:30 p.m. on U.S. Highway 212, nine miles east of Crow Agency, the Montana Highway Patrol said. A 17-year-old male, a passenger Read More…

BOZEMAN — Barbara Keremedjiev suffered a terrible blow when her husband George Keremedjiev died unexpectedly after heart surgery in November. “After the initial shock . I thought, what am I going to do?” Barbara said. Leave Bozeman? Go live near the grandkids? Despite her shock and grief, she quickly decided she would stay and fight Read More…

The U.S. Department of Education will investigate a discrimination complaint made 18 months ago against the Wolf Point School District. The complaint claims systematic discrimination against American Indian students, according to a lawyer who helped file the complaint in June 2017. The school district was the subject of stories in the New York Times and Read More…

Newly departed U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told The Associated Press on Thursday that he’s been truthful with investigators looking into numerous ethics complaints against him and rejected as inaccurate a report that he’s under investigation for lying. Zinke’s comments came in response to a Washington Post story alleging that the Justice Department’s public integrity Read More…

The Montana Public Service Commission said it doesn’t know of an outage that has generated more complaints than last week’s outage by national telecommunications giant CenturyLink. The outage affected phone and internet traffic across the state beginning Dec. 27 and wasn’t fully resolved until two days later.  Despite the record number of complaints, Montana’s PSC Read More…

Ex-Miles City athletic trainer James “Doc” Jensen was paid as an employee by the school district there for at least four years, according to documents filed Wednesday by plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Plaintiffs and the school district continue to spar in court filings about Jensen’s status with the high school. Jensen is accused of operating Read More…

The funeral for a 14-year-old girl found dead last week on the Northern Cheyenne reservation will take place Saturday in Lame Deer. Henny Scott’s funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Lame Deer High School, according to Forsyth-based Stevenson & Sons Funeral Home. On Friday, mourners will gather at the school for a traditional Read More…

Officials have identified a 26-year-old man who died on New Year’s Eve after crashing his truck on a rural road north of Livingston. Moore was ejected from the vehicle, which is believed to have wrecked sometime between midnight and 6 a.m., Jenkins said. While traveling eastbound on Brackett Creek Road, Moore’s truck went off the Read More…

Jerrica Bursik never pictured herself as a leader — “like, ever.” Leadership, it seemed, was for the hand shakers, the natural speech makers, those who didn’t think twice about standing up in front of a crowd.  The Park City High School senior instead saw herself as the problem solver, someone who toiled quietly without seeking the Read More…

ABSAROKEE — It was early in his paramedic career, but Aaron McDowell still remembers the four-hour ambulance ride, rushing through the fog, to hospitalize a newborn girl with a life-threatening heart condition. “We got her there. She had heart surgery. She lived,” McDowell said. “Last time I knew, she was 10 years old. What has Read More…

Vicki Tapia published a memoir in early 2014 detailing the painful journey she took as a caregiver to a mother with Alzheimer’s disease. “Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia” also documented her father’s Parkinson’s diagnosis and the related dementia. She wrote the book to give others what she didn’t have at the Read More…