News Staff BUTTE, Mont. – Weather conditions shutdown I-90 on Homestake Pass this morning. Montana Department of Transportation officials announced temporary road closures between mile marker 229 to 234, due to scattered frost and ice. MDT also announced multiple spun-out semis at mile marker 232 blocking lanes of traffic. -0-
HELENA, Mont. – A one car rollover crash in Helena over the weekend has resulted in DUI charges being filed. The Helena Police Department reports that on April 15 officers responded to the wreck on the ramp at I-15 and Cedar street and found a woman trapped inside the vehicle. Further investigations led to her … Read more
A capital campaign is expected to begin soon to raise nearly $1 million to purchase a new bookmobile for the Lewis and Clark Library’s mobile fleet, the library director said. The Lewis and Clark Library is hoping to replace the Bookmobile, whichn was purchased in 2012 and has seen better days, officials said Monday, with … Read more
Multiple city of Helena departments are set to coordinate the planting of about 70 boulevard trees along Rodney Street in May. The project will replace the more than 100-year-old trees decimated during an infrastructure upgrade project last summer. Helena Urban Forestry officials said Monday the replacement trees will go in the boulevard along Rodney Street … Read more
St. Peter’s Health Urgent Care – North is closed until further notice due to a “small, after-hours equipment fire” on Monday, according to St. Peter’s website. The alarms and sprinklers were activated, and the fire was quickly extinguished by the Helena Fire Department. A St. Peter’s spokeswoman said, the fire was sparked after a label … Read more
A domestic violence incident resulted in several charges for a 31-year-old Helena man. Dylan Joseph Sparkman was arrested after a confrontation with his ex-girlfriend last week during which he allegedly struck her several times and threatened to kill himself at the victim’s York Road residence, according to court documents. Nearly a dozen charges were filed … Read more
The Montana Department of Transportation is warning commuters to expect delays as work gets underway on the $39 million Interstate 15 Wolf Creek north and south project this week. This project will rehabilitate about 7 miles of Interstate 15 south of Wolf Creek and extends north to the Augusta interchange (exit 228). Both north and … Read more
An East Helena man pleaded guilty Thursday to one felony count of sexual assault. Eric Lee Haight is accused of touching a juvenile inappropriately on at least two separate occasionsons in 2022, according to court reports. Haight was 31 when charges were filed in March 2022. Sentencing in the case is set for May 25. … Read more
HELENA – Advocates held a rally in Helena to mark “International Transgender Day of Visibility.,” On Friday (March 31) around 100 people gathered in the Montana State Capitol rotunda to highlight the state’s transgender, non-binary and two-spirit communities. Speakers at the rally protested a series of bills advancing in the Legislature that they called “attacks” … Read more
LIBBY – Three officials in the Lincoln County Elections Office have stepped down. According to a statement from the Lincoln County Human Resources Director, the Clerk and Recorder, the Elections Administrator and her assistant turned in resignation letters on March 24, 2023. The resignations were the result of a personal matter, the statement noted.. Officials … Read more