Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
The Water Compact and methamphetamine abuse cropped up many times at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes quarterly meeting on April 3. CSKT attorney Rhonda Swaney updated the membership on the progress of the Water Compact. It has passed through the Montana Senate and is now in the Montana House o...
RONAN — The water slipping through the gates of a dilapidated, decades old, rickety irrigation headwork on the Pablo Feeder Canal on North Crow Creek drifts by with a quiet gurgle, and to the naked eye it might be hard to distinguish the infinitesimal differences in day-to-day water level, but to the h...
HELENA – A bill that would have appropriated $5 million for the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation office to take on the cases of privately held state-based water rights if the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Water Compact does not pass is likely dead. House ...
RONAN – After nearly a quarter-century of being owned by an original group of investors who built it from the ground up, the Mission Mountain Golf Club has come under new ownership that hopes to restore the course so it can continue to serve loyal locals and create a more of a draw for southern traveli...
RONAN — A Ronan man accused of killing his brother and leading authorities on a manhunt in June 2014 is set to plead his case before a jury later this year, after rejecting a plea deal that would have sent him to prison for 40 years. Harry Lozeau, 54, had agreed to plead guilty to homicide cha...
POLSON – Authorities say Ronan state wrestling champion Cole Snyder was selling prescription drugs to other students and manipulated a 15-year-old girl into sending him nude photos before the teen was arrested in February for felony distribution of dangerous drugs and felony sexual abuse of children.&n...
MISSOULA – A federal district judge has found a Bigfork man guilty of illegally killing three grizzly bears in May 2014. On March 30, United States Magistrate Jeremiah Lynch found Dan Calvin Wallen, 54, guilty of three counts of unlawfully taking a threatened species. “The only ...
HELENA – The Montana Supreme Court turned down most parts of an appeal filed earlier in March by a man serving a 50-year sentence for kidnapping an 18-year-old Bigfork woman from a festival in 2006. Charles “Chuck” Devlin, 64, is ineligible for parole until 2032. He has appealed th...
RONAN – A Ronan teacher and her students brought home serious hardware from the state Health Occupation Students of America – Future Health Professionals competition held March 20-22. The competition pits students against each other in a number of contests that test health science knowle...
CHARLO — The public lands that support wildlife in Mission Valley are fragmented into a patchwork owned by different entities engaged in varying management strategies, but when game such as pheasant make their nests here, they live irrespective of fenced boundaries and human plans. The Mission...
