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Montana has a new, independent online newspaper — The Havre Herald, which aims to cover the news and tell the stories of people in the central Hi-Line region of the state. The online publication was launched Monday by Paul Dragu and Teresa Getten, a married couple who worked together on the Havre Daily News. They are being aided by John Kelleher, the former Daily News managing editor who hired Dragu and Getten and retired a little less than two years ago. (more…) Continue Reading →
A group of landowners in Stillwater County say their county commissioners, having already changed the rules once in their fight to stymie a citizen-initiated zoning district, are now misinterpreting state law to achieve the same end. (more…) Continue Reading →
The other two officers suspended in a sex scandal within the Billings Police Department have, apparently, now identified themselves. Local television station KULR-8 is reporting that Scheveck and Salminen Law, the local firm representing the officers, said officers M. Edwards and Clint Anglin released statements exclusively to KULR-8, saying they were the other two officers. (more…) Continue Reading →
Officer Paul LaMantia has resigned from the Billings Police Department after identifying himself as one of the three officers who admitted having sex with a departmental clerk on city property or while on duty. LaMantia’s resignation was reported about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday by Jason Harris on his “Big J Show,” a radio show at FM 101.9 that features talk, interviews and music. (more…) Continue Reading →
The names of three Billings police officers disciplined for job-related sexual encounters will remain private for at least two more days. (more…) Continue Reading →
I met Craig Lancaster almost as soon as he came to Billings nearly 12 years ago, shortly after he was hired to work at the Billings Gazette, where I’d already been for more than 15 years. He quit the newspaper in 2013, about six months before I did, to try his hand at writing novels and freelancing full-time. Now, he’s on the cusp of another big change — moving at the end of this month to Boothbay, on the coast of Maine, with his wife, the novelist Elisa Lorello. (more…) Continue Reading →
Do you have a good story about how a song changed your life, or maybe how an album got you through a challenging time? If you want to tell it, you could win some cash and prizes and a chance to read your story at a literary event in Billings this July. (more…) Continue Reading →
Two floors of the Yellowstone County Courthouse suffered flood damage over the weekend, but you can’t blame this one on the record snowpack. (more…) Continue Reading →
Vince Long recently completed a year-long deep dive into Billings history, and now he’s sharing the fruits of his labor on the internet. Those fruits consist of 980 hours and 13 minutes of random audio slices of Billings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, though some of the trove also consists of national radio broadcasts recorded in Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →
People in Montana have good reason to be proud of Jess Lockwood. Last November, at the age of 20, he became the youngest person ever, and the first from Montana, to win the Professional Bull Riders World Championship in Las Vegas. (more…) Continue Reading →
