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Walkerville Grocery partners allege anti-Butte bias sabotaged state grant application

Older folks warned Clark Grant that anti-Butte bias could hamstring applying for state grants for projects in Butte and the surrounding vicinity. Yet Grant helped to secure funds for KBMF-LP radio, for the Carpenters Union Hall and the Walkerville Grocery. But then he and grocery partner Dan Hogan

Feds attribute 2024 fatal helicopter crash in Anaconda to mechanical failure, low altitude

Mechanical failure and a low-altitude flight combined to limit the options of the 28-year-old pilot who died nearly two years ago when the engine seized in the helicopter he was flying and it crashed in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County. That’s according to the final report from

Data center visit reinforces support among some Butte commissioners, yet questions linger

The road trip provided context and content for Michele Shea’s deliberations about the pros and cons of hosting a Sabey Data Centers facility in Butte-Silver Bow County. Shea was one of six members of the Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners who traveled in late March to Quincy,

Riffle-and-Pool: Carving a new home for fish habitat in Anaconda's Fifer Gulch Creek

Riffle-and-Pool: Carving a new home for fish habitat in Anaconda's Fifer Gulch Creek

ANACONDA — Alex Leone stood at the edge of an engineered meander and imagined an eager youngster standing there someday making memories with a fishing rod. Leone is president of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited. The storied chapter is shepherding an ambitious project to transform the ditched and channelized

'We're in trouble': Legislative panels sound alarm over southwest Montana rivers

The chairman asked for succinct and Jim Keane of Butte delivered. “We’re in trouble,” he said. Keane, a former legislator, is a citizen member of the Environmental Quality Council. It met Wednesday morning in Helena to discuss Montana’s rivers and hear from the members of three panels — one

Great blue herons return to Deer Lodge Valley rookery for spring breeding season

Great blue herons grace the skies, trees and streams in the Deer Lodge Valley as the birds return each spring to breed. Herons typically build nests high in the trees, which holds true for the regional rookery. “Male great blue herons collect much of the nest material, gathering sticks from

Butte Mine Waste Repository gets formal nod from EPA, DEQ

The Berkeley Pit bit the dust, at least for the foreseeable future, as a place to dump contaminated soils from Superfund sites in the so-called Silver Bow Creek Conservation Area. The Butte Mine Wastes Repository, after being dismissed early on as being too small, ultimately got the nod after