No fear of crowds at Under the Big Sky; Whitefish music festival draws 20,000+

The question about whether or not people are ready to gather, sweaty shoulder to sweaty shoulder, in a big outdoor crowd has been answered. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana advocates of ‘right to repair’ ag equipment welcome federal recognition

Biden’s order directs the Federal Trade Commission to consider using its rulemaking authority to address “unfair anticompetitive restrictions on third-party repair or self-repair of items, such as the restrictions imposed by powerful manufacturers that prevent farmers from repairing their own… Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

‘Grieved by this loss’: Red Lodge community grapples with lessons of Robertson Draw fire

In the scarred face of the mountain, the permanent residents of Red Lodge now have a lasting reminder of what’s becoming another record-setting year of wildfires in the West. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

High temperatures in Bitterroot River, other waterways hurt trout

More dead or dying fish are being found in some of Montana’s most popular angling destinations this summer, including the Bitterroot, Clark Fork, Big Hole, Beaverhead, Jefferson and many others. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana domestic violence group misspent $333,318, feds say

Federal investigators have issued a scathing audit of a Montana nonprofit organized to end violence against Native American women and children. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana faces scarce firefighting resources amid drought

Montana faces a shortage in firefighting resources amid a historic drought that could lead to a record-breaking wildfire season, officials said Thursday. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Harris Hill fire that injured Red Lodge firefighter at 2,500 acres, 50 homes evacuated

Upwards of 50 homes have been evacuated, with evacuation orders covering homes on Cole Creek Road and Stene Road. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Sioux tribe claims remains of kids who died at assimilation school

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The remains of nine Native American children who died more than a century ago while attending a government-run school in Pennsylvania meant to assimilate them into white culture have been returned to their South Dakota tribe… Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Joliet wildfire injures Red Lodge firefighter

The firefighter was taken to a hospital by ambulance and subsequently flown to a Salt Lake City hospital with “severe burn injuries.” Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Stage 1 fire restrictions to start in Bob Marshall Wilderness

The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest is implementing Stage 1 fire restrictions across the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex within the Lincoln and Rocky Mountain ranger districts, starting Saturday. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Daines, local officials talk rising crime rates in Billings

The focus of the conversation was on rapidly increasing crime rates, drugs like methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl and the impacts those crimes have on the community. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Scapegoat Wilderness trout kill plan gets OK

A plan to kill non-native rainbow trout and replace them with native westslope cutthroat trout in the Scapegoat Wilderness has been approved by the U.S. Forest Service. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Helena man cited in Grizzly Gulch fire

A 31-year-old Helena man has been cited for negligent arson in connection with the Grizzly Gulch fire that burned several acres just outside of town, authorities said Friday. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Massive solar project proposed for Butte denied permit

Some saw a greener future and economic perks, and some saw a massive eyesore blighting the rural landscape in Butte residents’ backyards. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

DEQ drops ‘bad actor’ claim against Hecla exec

In a reversal, Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality won’t press for “bad actor” sanctions against Hecla Mining Co. executive Phillips Baker. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

FWP kills mountain lion on Billings West End, warns of more summer animal encounters

Neighbors first reported the lion at 4 a.m. Thursday near N. 48th Street West in the Oak Ridge Estates subdivision. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Wildfires cause evacuations near Wise River, widespread smoke over Butte

Much of the smoke settling over Butte and the Summit Valley is likely coming from Montana wildfires to the southwest, officials say, including one that led to a cautionary evacuation of 38 houses and structures near Wise River. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Caldera chronicles: An outlier of Yellowstone’s thermal areas: the travertine of Mammoth Hot Springs

Early explorers during the separate Washburn, Hayden and Hague expeditions of the 1870s were astonished by the massive terraces and pools of hot-spring limestone, better known as travertine, at Mammoth Hot Springs — a chemical oddity that is quite different… Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Biologists to capture Montana grizzly bears for research

Biologists are set to begin capturing grizzly bears in the Custer Gallatin National Forest south of Gallatin Gateway as part of ongoing population monitoring required under the Endangered Species Act. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Great Falls police report homicide, kidnapping; suspect dead

Police in Great Falls are investigating a homicide and kidnapping early Thursday that ended hours later just south of Glacier National Park with the suspect dead and the hostage safe, officials said. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Influx of medical school students could overwhelm Montana resources, program leaders warn

Opening two new medical schools in Montana would stretch and possibly overwhelm the state’s physicians who provide the clinical training that students need to become doctors. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Fires west and east of Missoula keep growing

Gov. Greg Gianforte declared a statewide wildland fire emergency Wednesday. Almost 1,400 wildfires were burning a total of 141,000 acres. Nearly four-fifths of those were human-caused. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

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