billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
HELENA - The Montana Supreme Court says the common police practice of "wiring" informants without a warrant is a violation of suspects' privacy rights. In a decision issued Wednesday, the high court said a district judge in Gallatin County should have ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
A 25-year-old man who sexually molested a 5-year-old boy in the restroom of a Billings restaurant has been sentenced to prison. Today, District Judge Russell Fagg sentenced David Reko Hernandez to 25 years at the Montana State Prison, with 10 years su ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
HELENA - The state health department says a Richland County woman has been diagnosed with Montana's first case of West Nile virus this year. The Department of Public Health and Human Services says the woman is believed to have acquired the infection i ...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | yesterday
A map propped up in Missoula City Council chambers Tuesday showed three Montanas. The first was Montana in 1996. The few counties highlighted in red -- including Missoula County -- indicated where the average home price outpaced the average household income. The second, Montana in 2006, showed much more red, almost all of the western third of the state. The third map, projecting 2020, was entirely...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
MISSOULA, MT (MARKET WIRE) Bill Teague received the Montana Telecommunications Association's (MTA) Lifetime Achievement Award for his 25 years of service on the Board of Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative (Blackfoot), and for his contributions to the telecommunications industry locally and statewide.
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
A teacher from Eastern Montana, Barb Sackman, is among 10 supporters who will be joining presidential candidate Barack Obama backstage before he accepts the nomination at this month's Democratic National Convention in Denver, the Billings Gazette reports. In applying for the opportunity, Sackman said she wrote a short essay about living in rural Montana and how rising fuel prices are making it hard...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
HELENA - State Sen. Sam Kitzenberg of Glasgow, who lost the Democratic primary in June for state superintendent of schools, is now running as a write-in candidate for state House District 35 in northeastern Montana. Kitzenberg, 61, said Monday that he ...
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Making a home office workGreat Falls Tribune, MT - 11 minutes agoLaurie and Joe O'Leary of Great Falls use a family room area in their basement as a home office. Both of the O'Learys work from home. …
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
HELENA Montana is hanging on as the only state besides Alaska that allows trapping of wolverines, an elusive mountain dweller rejected for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. Opponents of trapping were encouraged when Montana wildlif ...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
GREAT FALLS - Malmstrom Air Force Base's 564th Missile Squadron was officially deactivated Friday after completing a yearlong mission to remove 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles from underground silos across north-central Montana. The last of the ...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Missoula, Montana, you know how to please this man. Total Fest is a total party nights full of great rock bands from around the country and days full of chicken fried steak, barbeques, and drinking Hamms in a river. I wish I had the time or energy to talk about all of the bands on the second day at the three-stage Badlander, cause there's been a lot of good stuff, but there's a good reason the headliners...
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
A joint effort between the Billings Police Department and the U.S. Marshal's Violent Offender Task Force led to the arrest of three people Friday afternoon, including a woman wanted on a Montana Department of Corrections escape warrant out of Powell C ...
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
By RYAN HALL Montana Air National Guard ground crews taxi the newly arrived F-15’s to hangars at Great Falls International Airport on Friday morning. (TRIBUNE PHOTO/RION SANDERS) The Montana Air National Guard went back to the future on Friday — at about 450 miles per hour — when two 30-year-old model F-15s touched down on Gore Hill, [...]
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
by Gwen Florio (Disclosure: Sherry Jones and Biodun Iginla (blogowner) lived in Missoula, MT in 1998-1999, when he was Visiting adjunct professor in modern languages at the University of Montana in Missoula.) Sherry Jones wasn’t supposed to be in Missoula this week. She should have been in Chicago or Los Angeles or San Francisco, promoting her first novel, “Jewel of [...]
billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
HELENA - Bob Rowe, the new president of Montana's largest electric and natural gas utility, said Friday that he initially declined the job when offered it by NorthWestern Energy's board of directors. But when board members made it clear they want to b ...
