News Staff Just in time for summer! Last Chance Splash Waterpark and Pool are getting ready for the public to have fun in the sun. Last week, Last Chance Splash Waterpark and Pool started to fill their pools up with water, as well as make other preparations for the summer season ahead, Helena’s Recreation Program Manager said. … Read more
UPDATE – A one car crash in Powell County near Lincoln claimed the life of a 54-year-old Olney man. According to an update from the Montana Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at mile marker 59 on state Route 200 Tuesday afternoon [June 6], when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle, crossed the centerline … Read more
Day six of the trial in the 2011 killing of John Michael Crites continued Thursday with testimony from the suspects wife. Leon Ford has been charged with deliberate homicide in the 2011 death of Crites, stemming from a years long property fued between the two men. The trial is expected to continue Friday in Lewis … Read more
In what has become a long standing tradition, volunteers combed through Forestvale Cemetery on Saturday, placing flags at the headstones of veterans in honor of Memorial Day. Among them were many Helena-area Boy Scout Troops and a Cub Scout pack as well. Flags were placed Saturday on veterans’ graves throughout the cemetery in honor of … Read more
BUTTE – Montana veterans say the governor’s recent veto of funding for extra housing for elderly veterans at a Butte veterans home is a ‘slap in the face.’ “It was a punch in the gut,” said Dave Williamson the chairman of the Southwest Montana Veterans Home Foundation, following Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte decision not to … Read more
East Helena’s annual Memorial Day Parade made its way down East Main Street Monday morning, remembering and honoring those who sacrificed their lives serving this counrty. The parade concluded at the Military Veterans’ Memorial in Main Street Park for the ceremony to pay tribute to those who died in battle. -0-
BOZEMAN, Mont. – Few details are being released at this time about a police standoff that ended in an individual taking their own life over the Memorial Day weekend. The Bozeman Police Department responded to a report of a domestic disturbance involving a barricaded suspect, at a residence on North 11 Avenue and Sacco Drive … Read more
In what has become a long standing tradion, volunteers combed through Forestvale Cemetery on Saturday, placing flags at the headstones of veterans in honor of Memorial Day. Among them were many Helena-area Boy Scout Troops and a Cub Scout pack as well. Flags were placed Saturday on veterans’ graves throughout the cemetery in honor of … Read more
A Helena man convicted of raping, kidnapping and assaulting a woman in 2019 had the rape charge dismissed after the state Supreme Court determined the jury may have been swayed by “inadmissible statistical evidence.” Jorel Quiroz argued that his defense failed to object to testimony that had no plausible justification and biased the jury against … Read more
A Deer Lodge man was found guilty Thursday for sexually assaulting a minor. The jury unanimously convicted Charles Michael Byrne, 51, following a four-day jury trial. Byrne was found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor girl three separate times between 2010 and 2016, authorities said. He will be sentenced at a later date. -0-