billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
GREAT FALLS - The 78-foot, 144-year-old fir tree from the Bitterroot National Forest arrived in the U.S. Capitol on Monday after a long cross-country journey. The tree will be displayed outside the Capitol building from the official lighting ceremony ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
GREAT FALLS - Officials on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation are partnering with a Denver-based company in looking for oil on reservation lands along the Rocky Mountain Front. Anschutz Exploration Corp. is putting up the money for the exploration. The ...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The Associated Press' Matthew Brown today details how the credit crunch is squeezing the nation's power industry, focusing on a hot-button coal-fired plant near Great Falls, Montana. Brown reports: If credit woes put the brakes on scores of proposed plants, observers say a shift to other, more expensive fuels could end up soaking customers. The alternative is more frequent and potentially extended...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
GREAT FALLS - Bear managers have been the No. 1 killers of grizzlies in northwestern Montana over the past decade. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says "management removals" - the killing of bears, primarily for raiding food or killing cattle on pr ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
GREAT FALLS - C.M. Russell High School in Great Falls expects to have a wind turbine up and running on campus by the end of next week -- nearly two years after school officials approved the project. Industrial technology teacher Mark Yaeger says getti ...
Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
'One-way' bobcat trapped at airport By Tribune Staff - November 6, 2008 One of the "one-way animals" at the Montana Wildlife Rehabilitation Center is a bobcat that was trapped at the airport in Great Falls last August. One-way means it will not be returned to the wild. The bobcat was declawed and eventually released. It survived but was beginning to beg for food from humans. The adult feline is about...
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Yesterday's Great Falls (MT) Tribune reports on last month's filing of a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Friday, a case in which the 10th Circuit rejected a challenge under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to the government's enforcement of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. (See prior posting ). A petition for en banc rehearing was also rejected. The...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
GREAT FALLS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Davidson Investment Advisors, a Montana-based money management firm, today announced that it has launched the
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
The Eleventh Man By Ivan Doig Harcourt, 406 pages, $26 Montana native Ivan Doig returns to his home state for his ninth novel, using East Base in Great Falls as the launching pad to send his characters to every part of the globe, including Guam, New Guinea, Belgium, and Alaska. The Eleventh Man is an engrossing World War II epic, centered around newspaper reporter Ben Reinking, who is removed from...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- Montana's state veterinarian says a national animal health group is backing the creation of a special livestock disease management zone around Yellowstone National Park.
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
GREAT FALLS - Critics of a proposed coal-fired power plant east of Great Falls are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to order work halted at the plant. The Montana Environmental Information Center, Citizens for Clean Energy of Great Falls and ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
GREAT FALLS - A fifth-grade teacher from Great Falls has won a $25,000 award from the Milken Family Foundation. Kathie Heusel, an educator at Morningside Elementary, was the only teacher in Montana, and one of just 80 nationwide, to be given one ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
GREAT FALLS - The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has bought a ranch along the Marias River near Shelby. The 7,363-acre property will soon become a combination state park and wildlife management area, but until next spring it's closed t ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
SALT LAKE CITY - A Montana man was one of two Mormon missionaries who were attacked and stabbed while returning to their apartment in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. In a statement, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says 21-year-old David ...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Methamphetamine use is down, cocaine is coming back and Montana continues to see a boom in prescription painkiller abuse, writes Zachary Franz in the Great Falls Tribune.
