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Procession held Thursday afternoon to honor late Deer Lodge PD assistant chief

Dozens of police vehicles from around the region joined an escort procession Thursday afternoon to honor the late Ronald Slauson, the assistant chief of the Deer Lodge Police Department. Slauson, 48, died Feb. 17 at his home in Deer Lodge. Slauson's memorial service was Thursday evening. In this

Experts: Abandoned vehicles on Montana highways should be promptly towed

Blowing snow obscures lanes and landmarks. Hands grip steering wheels. Knuckles whiten. Then, suddenly, a vehicle abandoned on the interstate shoulder appears out of the gloom and swirl. Adrenaline surges. Disabled vehicles sometimes linger for days on the shoulders of interstates 90 and 15 in Montana. A Ford Escape with

'Old-school newspaperman': Montana Standard reporter Mike Smith remembered for getting it right

Mike Smith, a reporter at The Montana Standard, died Tuesday morning in Butte

Silver mining town's 1920s history being resurrected in East Pioneer Mountains

No church. No saloon. No single women, aside from the schoolmarm. One miner’s letter to his wife bemoaned the dearth of activities apart from digging ore or milling it. “There is nothing to do here but lay around and it sure gets tiresome,” wrote Harry Renz in 1922. Renz

'Old-school newspaperman': Montana Standard reporter Mike Smith remembered for getting it right

Mike Smith, a reporter at The Montana Standard, died Tuesday morning in Butte

Warm Springs Ponds: Researcher to study potential metals exposure in migratory birds

They swim like ducks and look like ducks, but American coots are members of the rail family of birds. Coots have faces only a mother coot could love. Their flattened features resemble those of a hapless pugilist. Bald eagles hunt coots because the slow fliers are easy to snatch. Quirky

Three key takeaways from Silver Bow Mining's exploration plan near Walkerville

Silver Bow Mining, the successor to Butte Blackjack, hopes to conduct exploratory mining activities in lands near Walkerville that were mined in decades past. The company has applied to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for the license it needs to begin both exploratory surface drilling and underground mining to