Rollout of new Montana recovery treatment program shows promise

The new program incorporates behavioral sciences with a digital therapeutic component that interacts with users via text messaging, making support services available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Escaped Park County inmate arrested

A man who has spent the past several days on the run from Park County authorities is now in custody. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Smoke fouls air as fires, heat hammer U.S. northern Rockies

Record-breaking heat was forecast to return Tuesday to the Northern Rockies, where thick smoke from dozens of large wildfires drove pollution readings to unhealthy levels. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Low water shrinking reservoirs during peak season

Boaters and other recreationists using Hebgen Lake were alerted by NorthWestern Energy on Monday that the reservoir will continue to drop as more water is being required to cool the Madison River as hot weather persists. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Updated: 4 firefighters out of hospital after 5 injured in Garfield Co. fire

Four firefighters have been released from the hospital and a fifth was being treated at a burn center Monday after a Montana wildfire overran them last week, authorities said. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

State DEQ issues air quality alert for 13 Montana counties

Smoke prompts air quality alert for Beaverhead, Carbon, Gallatin, Lewis and Clark, Madison, Missoula, Park, Pondera, Powder River, Powell, Ravalli and Sweet Grass Counties, Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Law enforcement looking for escaped Park County jail inmate

Jordon Earl Linde is still at large and is believed to be driving a stolen 2000 Chrysler Town and Country minivan with MT plate 49-6627D. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

‘Damn, don’t it feel good’: Red Ants Pants festival returns with 3 days of good music and good vibes

After a year off, the Red Ants Pants Music Festival returns, along with the $3 million it dumps into the local economy. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

The mystery of Manuel Martinez: The victim of Billings’ only unsolved homicide of 2020

Manny Martinez’s case is the only unsolved homicide of 2020 — a singular loose end from a year that witnessed a record 22 homicides in Billings, 19 of which were deliberate. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Remembering ‘Stagecoach Mary’: Highway ‘adopted’ in honor of first Black woman to win Postal Service contract

There is a portion of highway on the thundering plains between Cascade and Great Falls where the spirit of a Montana legend known as “Stagecoach Mary” lives on. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Six months after opening, Marble Table in Downtown Billings expands

After eating just two meals at Marble Table, contractor Aaron Koenigsberg and his family are helping the owners expand their business — for free. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

3 teens charged as adults plead not guilty to rape, assault, kidnapping charges

The Yellowstone County Attorney’s Office has filed a series of serious adult felony charges against three teenage boys accused of carjacking, kidnapping and violently raping a Billings woman. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana rural clinics receive federal funds aimed at vaccine education

The funds made available by the American Rescue Plan total $990,580 and will go to 20 rural health clinics in the state. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

State park officials discuss ‘banner year’ for Montana

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials said Thursday state recreation facilities are seeing large increase in visitors, adding they do not see it as a detriment. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Caldera chronicles: Yellowstone’s sibling in the southern hemisphere: Taupō, New Zealand

Other large caldera systems exist all around the planet, and many are “restless” and have had geologically recent eruptions. Taupō, in New Zealand, is one such system and is a good analog for Yellowstone in many ways. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

High water temps and low flows prompt hoot-owl fishing closures in Yellowstone National Park

Effective Saturday, July 24, Yellowstone National Park’s rivers and streams will close to fishing in the afternoon and evening due to high water temperatures and unprecedented low stream flows. This closure will protect the park’s native and wild trout fisheries. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

It’s official: Butte will now have daily flights to Salt Lake and Denver

SkyWest Airlines will start providing Butte flights to and from Salt Lake City and Denver starting in January, giving the Mining City a second, big-destination city it has sought for years. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Rescuers searching, boy may have drowned in Kootenai River

Officials in northwestern Montana are searching for a 17-year-old boy who is feared drowned after falling into the Kootenai River east of Troy. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Wildfire smoke drives people in low-vaccinated areas indoors, raising outbreak fears

Smoke from the wildfires burning through bone-dry forests and grasslands in the West has damaged air quality this week from California to the Eastern Seaboard. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Colleges offer construction worker certificate program

BOZEMAN — Two-year colleges in Montana are teaming up to provide a job site readiness certificate program for people interested in joining the construction trades as demand for workers in that field increases. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Montana VA included in lawsuit over information requests

The Montana VA is among 14 federal veterans facilities named in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, claiming information requests were not fulfilled in a timely manner regarding questions over some new programs. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

Fire officials ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Alder Creek Fire

WISE RIVER — The good news Monday night about the Alder Creek Fire edged toward ironic. Top Featured Tags: – Montana News Press Release Distribution Service

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