This story was originally published by the Associated Press and Montana Free Press. President Donald Trump’s social media posts calling for the NFL’s Washington Commanders to revert to their old name have revived the conversation about Native American imagery in sports. The team has indicated it has no plans to go back to a name Read More…

A Missoula waste company is officially protesting Republic Service’s purchase of a family-run East Helena waste company. The reason? Monopoly concerns, Missoula-based Grizzly Disposal and Recycling claims. “When you control the landfill, you control the prices,” said Billy Fisher, Grizzly’s general manager. “We already dealt with this in Missoula.” Family business Tri-County Disposal has operated Read More…

Author Ciara Ryan will sign copies of her new release “Henry Sieben and the Montana Story” at the Montana Book Company 6-7 p.m. Thursday.  “Henry’s untold story expands our understanding of Montana’s history,” Ryan said. “He arrived in the territory a young immigrant, and his simple values of hard work and family helped shape this Read More…

The Beaverhead Range emerged as a strong candidate for wintry cloud seeding. The Anaconda Range was close behind. The Pioneers came in third. The Beaverheads’ candidacy is due, in part, to a typically higher amount of precipitation in winter and the presence of “supercooled liquid water at appropriate temperatures for silver iodide to nucleate ice.” Read More…

Racetrack Creek flows cold and clear from the alpine snowfields of the Flint Creek Range and from Racetrack Lake above the Deer Lodge Valley. Moose find cover and forage in the extensive willows that line the creek. Other wildlife, including native trout, elk, bear and mule deer, find welcoming habitat in the vicinity. There was Read More…

Yellowstone County’s first case of measles has now been confirmed by the Montana State Laboratory, said RiverStone Health spokeswoman Casey Page. The now confirmed case was identified in a school-aged Yellowstone County child who visited a local healthcare facility on Friday. The child had recently traveled with their family to an area where measles is Read More…

Montana Native Growth Fund, a nonprofit focused on Native-led economic development, hosted the fourth annual Big Sky Indigifest in Billings last week.  Indigifest is designed to spotlight Indigenous entrepreneurs, artists, and small business owners. Beyond the showcase, the organization plays a key role in supporting Native-owned businesses through services like business training and access to Read More…

A Butte-Silver Bow commissioner and some residents say “urban camping” is becoming a serious problem in Butte and they want local laws to regulate it. “Communities across the country and here in Montana are grappling with the public health, safety and environmental changes posed by unsanctioned encampments in parks and other places,” Commissioner Trudy Healy Read More…

A person of interest believed to be involved in the hit-and-run fatality that occurred early Saturday in Butte died Sunday night as a result of an apparent suicide, authorities said. Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff Ed Lester said Butte police located what is believed to be the suspect vehicle early Sunday morning and spoke to a person Read More…

Interstate 15 near Dillon was the scene of a July 17 accident that left an 82-year-old man from Draper, Utah dead. The accident occurred at 5:15 p.m. at mile marker 62, involving a Chevy Silverado pickup truck and a BMW K1200RS motorcycle. According to a Montana Highway Patrol report, a 26-year-old man from Eureka, traveling Read More…

The name of a pedestrian killed in an early Saturday morning hit-and-run incident in Butte was released Sunday. The victim was 39-year-old Duncan Brass of Butte, authorities said. He was positively identified by the Butte-Silver Bow Coroner’s Office with help from Butte police and the Montana Highway Patrol. Police say Brass was struck and killed Read More…

MIKE SMITH Police say a motorist struck and killed a pedestrian at the intersection of Locust and Garfield streets in Butte around 12:30 a.m. Saturday and drove off without stopping. The pedestrian, a 38-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency personnel, Sheriff Ed Lester said in a news release Saturday afternoon. His Read More…

N8V Grown, a Native American-owned and operated recreational marijuana dispensary, opened its first Billings-area storefront Friday, bringing the company’s signature high-potency products to Montana’s largest city. The shop — located at 7342 Eggebrecht Lane — is the sixth N8V Grown location statewide and the first near an urban center. Recreational cannabis shops are legal in Yellowstone Read More…

Lilly Keller Bozeman Daily Chronicle More than 700 faculty, students, staff and community members packed the Strand Union Ballroom on Wednesday evening to welcome Brock Tessman, Montana State University’s 13th president, in his first public appearance. The event marked a new chapter for MSU. Tessman steps into the role after the departure of Waded Cruzado, Read More…

Calling it the most egregious case he has overseen, a judge sentenced a Butte man to five 100-year prison terms with no time suspended Thursday for raping two young girls and filming some of the sexual assaults. Theodore Allen Cherry III, 35, admitted specific sex acts and pleaded guilty in April to two counts of Read More…

Officials gathered Wednesday to celebrate the completion of a fiber broadband project in Hardin and construction underway in Butte and Whitehall. Gov. Greg Gianforte announced the expansion of the fiber broadband network in collaboration with Visionary Broadband during a ribbon-cutting ceremony held in Whitehall. Gov. Gianforte and Visionary Broadband CEO Brian Worthen during a ceremony in Read More…

The Montana Department of Justice has started a chaplaincy program to provide spiritual help and comfort to its more than 900 employees who find themselves dealing with the darkest of crimes and other trauma. Ten chaplains from around the Treasure State were sworn in Tuesday as DOJ employees by Attorney General Austin Knudsen and will Read More…

In what’s a usually quiet and restrained space, cheers and applause rang out in an American flag-adorned courtroom as immigrants became official United States citizens in a ceremony Wednesday. New U.S. citizens attend a Naturalization Ceremony at the United States District Court in Billings on Wednesday. Citizens of 15 countries attended the morning ceremony with Read More…

Hoot-owl restrictions take effect at 2 p.m. on Thursday on several southwest Montana rivers. The restrictions prohibit fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight each day and will stay in effect until conditions improve. These restrictions are designed to protect fish that become more susceptible to disease and mortality when water temperatures rise. The rivers include: Read More…

Bozeman city commissioners voted 4-1 in the waning hours of Tuesday night to adopt the Pride flag as an official flag of the city after hours of public comment. The move allows the city to again raise the rainbow Pride flag after a state law restricting the type of flags that can be flown outside Read More…