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‘Really valuable’: Anaconda loses its newspaper

ANACONDA — For as long as Robbie Dee can remember being an adult, he’s been a subscriber to the Anaconda Leader newspaper. The Anaconda native and longtime advertiser with the Leader is hanging on to the final edition of the 55-year-old two days per week local paper, which

Anaconda grieves loss of community's treasured twice-weekly newspaper

The community of Anaconda-Deer Lodge County grieved Monday after learning its steadfast twice-weekly newspaper had abruptly closed after more than five decades. A sign on the Main Street door of The Anaconda Leader announced the shuttering. “We deeply regret to inform our customers and readers that The Anaconda

EPA proposes lowering trigger for Butte lead cleanup, expanding work

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday morning released details about a long-awaited proposal to significantly lower the lead cleanup level for residential soils and interior dust in Butte. As envisioned, the cleanup level would drop from 1,200 parts per million to 456 ppm. In addition, EPA

Fireweed pitch: Unwinnable Democrats should back GOP, independents

Fireweed pitch: Unwinnable Democrats should back GOP, independents

If Democrats cannot win the 1st U.S. Congressional District race in Montana, the party is better positioned backing select moderate Republicans or independent candidates who can advance at least some of the agenda. That’s what Fireweed Campaigns, a self-described politically independent Helena-based firm with only Republican

Documents, details released about 2025 mass shooting in Anaconda

Court documents released after a recent order from a district court judge add details to the Aug. 1, 2025 shooting of four people in Anaconda. Michael Paul Brown is alleged to have entered the Owl Bar in Anaconda that day and killed Daniel Baillie, Nancy Kelley, David Leach and Tony

How the push to get the Anaconda mass shooting court documents unsealed unfolded

Three days after Michael Paul Brown allegedly shot and killed four people inside the Owl Bar in Anaconda, and while he was still on the run, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Morgan Smith filed a motion in district court to seal every document and pretrial proceeding in the case. Smith

Psychologist: Psychosis might not have hamstrung alleged Anaconda shooter as fugitive

A key debate about the seemingly inexplicable actions of Michael Paul Brown on Aug. 1, when he allegedly shot and killed four people he knew in an Anaconda bar, contests whether Brown was sane at the time. Friends, family members and acquaintances of Brown’s said during the shooting’s