Montana property taxes explained

By now, most Montana property owners have opened their 2023 Property Classification and Appraisal Notices, and many have been surprised by the Montana Department of Revenue’s estimate of their property’s market value.

Big Sky football: Griz, Cat coaches chew on preseason predictions

When you look at the 2023 Big Sky Conference football preseason polls, it's important to know that in 2022, the Montana Grizzlies were the pick, and finished 8-5. Montana State, picked second and third by the media and coaches, and Sacramento State were co-champions.

CARD Clinic ordered to pay $6 million in fraud case

BNSF Railway, upon behalf of the United States government, brought the suit in 2019 under the False Claims Act. The act allows private parties to sue on behalf of the federal government.

Dealing with Chinese economic coercion

What are gallium and geranium? Earlier this month China announced that effective Aug. 1, it will put export bans on these two seemingly obscure metals.

Grizzly euthanized after spate of conflicts in Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park officials on July 20 euthanized an aggressive and food-conditioned grizzly bear suspected of charging at a picnicking family near Swiftcurrent Lake Boat Launch earlier in the week.

Missing Koocanusa cliff jumper found dead

A missing Lincoln County man was found dead in Lake Koocanusa on Wednesday evening.

Teen drug prevention focus of Superior presentation

Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine and several others.

ATV riders meet at West End for annual poker ride

The West End ATV Association is an ATV club made up of locals primarily from DeBorgia, Haugan and Saltese.

PHOTO: Pioneer celebration dinner at Plains

The community is invited to a free dinner that will be taking place at Plains Fred Young Park, July 22, from 5:30 – 8:30, in celebration of our pioneer heritage.

COLUMN: Getting in laps

For me, it was “several shaky steps for dude, not much of a leap for mankind.”

Paradise Legion Club in need of new septic

During the well-publicized Paradise sewer project battle, the American Legion Club, one of two businesses in the town and the largest producer of sewage, had to walk a fine line.

Montana adds protections for kids in private residential treatment programs

As a teenager attending Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, a private, alternative therapeutic program in Eureka, Montana, from 2001 to 2004, Meg Appelgate was subjected to emotional abuse and not given medical care for injuries from physical labor such as baling hay, chopping wood, and moving rocks, she said.

Legals for July, 19 2023

Legals for July, 12 2023

Gary Novakovitch, 76

Gary Novakovitch, 76

Zinke endorses political newcomer Sheehy for Senate

U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke on Wednesday threw his support behind Navy SEAL veteran and businessman turned U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, joining other prominent Montana conservatives in endorsing the Bridger Aerospace CEO.

COLUMN: Pro payday

So let me get this straight: you get good, real good, really good at putting a ball through a hoop 10 feet off the ground and you can be set for life?

New fitness gym takes shape in Plains

It could be said the “Warrior” spirit is being infused into the site of what will be the Warrior Fitness gym in Plains.

Legals for July, 5 2023

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