A few dozen people gathered in front of the Montana Capitol Tuesday afternoon to call for “commonsense” gun law reform. Moms Demand Action, the organization said the impromptu rally was prompted by Monday’s fatal mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store by a gunman who purchased the assault rifle used to kill 10 people, just … Read more
Flyers for an April 6 event at a local church to discuss overthrowing the government were distributed Sunday in the East Helena area. The pastor said the gathering is independent of the Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church, where the group will meet to plan forming a militia and over taking Congress. The Montana Air National … Read more
At a demonstration Friday protestors rallied for justice for Jermain Charlo. About 20 of Charlo’s friends and family gathered outside the Missoula Police Department asking police to name the ex-boyfriend, Michael Defrance, as a suspect in her missing person’s case. Charlo went missing on June 16, 2018. According to a search warrant filed in Missoula … Read more
Preliminary information from an ongoing investigation launched Sunday in Livingston suggests that a person who fatally shot themselves is connected to the fatal shooting of another person. The incident, which Livingston Police Department Chief Dale Johnson is calling a homicide-suicide, was at a residence on South Ninth Street, according to a press release issued Sunday … Read more
A district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit North Star Development filed against the Montana Public Service Commission, which had ordered the company to reduce water and sewer rates for 270 Helena Valley homeowners. The lawsuit filed last year in Lewis and Clark County District Court stemmed from a contested rate case before the PSC. … Read more
An Eastbound wreck jammed up Thursday morning rush hour traffic on Highway 12 in Helena. According to a statement from the Helena Police Department, the two-vehicle crash happened shortly after 8 a.m., when a 23-year-old Helena woman collided with a pickup truck as she turned onto the hwy from Janet Street. There were no injuries … Read more
Helena may have another public transportation option soon. Bird, a California-based “shared micro-mobility” company, hopes to bring its rentable, dockless e-scooters to Helena as early as this spring. A Bird representative met with Downtown Helena Inc. members Wednesday morning to talk about the alternative public transportation option in which users download an app to locate … Read more
LCPH plans to open its own call center for those in need of live support. Rocky Mountain Development Council had been operating a call center to assist the elderly with registration, but as the vaccine rollout moves into later phases focused on younger residents, officials said LCPH wanted to relieve RMDC of that burden. -0-
Montana will make the COVID-19 vaccine available to all residents age 16 and older by April 1, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Tuesday. The news comes as Gianforte said on his weekly call with the White House, he was told vaccine manufacturing is ramping up. Supplies are expected to remain steady for the next two weeks … Read more
HELENA – The Republican majority on Montana’s House Taxation Committee voted Friday to increase the amount of an income tax cut for the wealthy proposed by Gov. Greg Gianforte. The committee amended Senate Bill 159, more than doubling a tax reduction for Montana’s wealthiest top earners. -0-