Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
POLSON – A man who crashed into a Polson school bus on May 11 while drunk may face some jail time and fines. Daniel George Fellows, 19, of Bigfork, pleaded guilty before Judge James Manley to two felony counts of criminal endangerment and one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcoh...
LAKE COUNTY — Summer time means a spike in human-bear conflict, but authorities say there are things people can do to help prevent instances like three in early June where bears had to be euthanized. According to Polson Police Chief Wade Nash an officer shot and killed a black bear on June 5 o...
LAKE COUNTY — The roadways of Montana are dotted with small, steel white crosses that serve as a solemn reminder that travel can sometimes turn treacherous and deadly, but the group responsible for placing them there wants to make sure the markers themselves don’t turn into a road hazard. ...
GREAT FALLS — Attorneys for a St. Ignatius native convicted of child abuse admitted he severely beat his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son so badly the child had to be flown via helicopter to Spokane from Great Falls in January 2013. The attorneys argue in a brief filed in Montana Supreme Court in late...
RONAN – When Amerra Webster talks about the difference receiving the Gates-Millennium Scholarship will make in her life, she can’t help but get teary-eyed. She had performed well all her academic career in Ronan School District, where she attended through 10th grade, and she contin...
RONAN — The Western Montana Stockman’s Association donated $1,000 of the estimated $10,000 cost of attending the FFA National Conference to the Mission Valley FFA team. The Livestock Judging team will be the first from Mission Valley to compete at the national level. Competition will be held this...
LAKE COUNTY – Three horses are safe, sound and on the road to recovery after a kind-hearted Ronan woman rescued them from a neglectful owner, but those involved in saving the animals worry there are others out there suffering because of a lack of large-animal rescue resources in the area. Shan...
HELENA – A public relations firm hired by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to sway public opinion about a tribal water compact did help form a grassroots lobbying group related to the compact, but the expenditures the tribal government made to do so were exempted from lobbying reports becaus...
HELENA – The fired up rhetoric that reached a din during the Montana Legislature has died down somewhat since the passage of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Compact, but state and tribal workers who did the behind-the-scenes grunt work for the document are now facing another monumental task:...
Persistence and innovation have caused a Charlo company to go from fledgling startup to one of the state’s energy sector leaders in four short years. Travis Jordan, CEO of MT Rigmats and other offshoot subsidiary companies, says the success hasn’t come without a lot of work and struggle....
