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.

Sheriff $300,000 over budget

Nick Ianniello

From father to daughter, a home stays in the family

People in Plains got quite a sight Wednesday as a house moved through the streets, filling two lanes of traffic.

4-H members offer 1,069 entries

Pigs are Joe DeTienne’s specialty. This is the 12-year-old Hot Springs resident’s third time bringing a swine to the Sanders County Fair.

Fundraiser turns people away as locals turn out in droves

Clint Weedeman, a Plains local, received an outpouring of love from the tiny community as the fundraiser event held in his name had to turn people away.

Hospital facing new financial challenges

After several years of hard work to get Mineral Community Hospital’s budget back on track it is once again faced with financial challenges with state budget cuts and Blue Cross Blue Shield pulling out of the Medicare Advantage program.

Demo Derby set to return

Arguably one of the biggest highlights to the annual Sanders County Fair is the all exciting, adrenaline-pumping Demolition Derby.

Area youths display work in ASC art show

Insurance concerns grow with fire danger

ST. REGIS - Homeowners in one St. Regis housing development are worried after one of their neighbors was denied renewal of their insurance policy because the provider told them they were in a high wildfire risk area.

CSKT potentially damaging to Montana

Volumes have been written about how the 2015 Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) water compact is unconstitutional, costly, and sets in motion risky laws based on unprecedented new policies.  These policies will be very destructive to Montanan’s for generations to come. Currently the only presented reason to support the compact is to alleviate the threat of the CSKT filing suit on 10,000 water claims all across western Montana. These claims are in my opinion very weak if not totally non-existing.

Physician says more resources needed

MINERAL COUNTY - A study conducted by the National Alliance on Mental Illness stated in 2010, 39,000 adults live with serious mental illness in the state of Montana and the public mental health system in the state only provides care to about 43 percent of them.

The e-book or paper book debate

SUPERIOR - Young children and even older adults have started migrating to many electronic forms of reading texts, which has caught the attention of school and library professionals.

Vintage autos on display at Plains Day

PLAINS – Engines roared and shiny vehicles of all makes, models and years lined the grassy span of the greenway as the 2014 Plains Day Car and Motorcycle show took place on Saturday.

Postcards and T-shirts discussed at Hot Springs meeting

HOT SPRINGS  - Members of the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce convened last week for the organization’s monthly meeting.

Hot Springs one step closer to water tower

HOT SPRINGS – The town of Hot Springs will soon be getting a new water tower after the town council voted 3-0 to approve the funding needed for the project.

Apprenticeship program brings training and employment opportunities to Mineral County

ST. REGIS – On Tuesday, Aug. 20, Montana Department of Labor & Industry officials visited the Idaho Forest Group St. Regis Mill as 12 apprentices signed paperwork to join the company’s first Montana Registered Apprenticeship program.

Couple are the new owners of two Plains eateries

Ripples has been a staple in Plains for and in September it came under new ownership.

Improvements keep Paradise water flowing

Matt Unrau

Museum looking to go to 150th Anniversary Mullan Road Conference

During this time 150 years ago, U.S. Army Lieut. John Mullan was finishing the first road ever to cross the Rocky Mountains to the inland of the Pacific Northwest. Mullan started the road in the spring of 1859 and finished it during the summer of 1860. The road travels from Fort Walla Walla, Washington to Fort Benton, Montana, which at the time was then Nebraska territory.

"Art on the Walls" returns to hospital

Thirteen local artists from Sanders County are now displaying their work at the new “Art on the Walls” exhibit in the halls of Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains.