Ashland News

BILLINGS - The Rosebud County Coroner has released the names of two men who died after an accident on US Route 212 near Ashland Friday night.

HELENA - On the same day that leaders from more than 100 countries gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, to hash out a plan for reducing greenhouse gases and stemming climate change, environmental groups met with two members of the state Land Board and urged them to leave Otter Creek coal in the ground.

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has been outspoken with his opinion that the state could get more money by waiting to lease its 610 million-tons of coal which are spread over 9,500 acres near Ashland.

The Mequon United Methodist Church Youth and their adult leaders traveled to Ashland, Montana and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in July to provide assistance in the form of building projects and home repairs to residents in need.

The Mequon United Methodist Church Youth and their adult leaders traveled to Ashland, Montana and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in July to provide assistance in the form of building projects and home repairs to residents in need.

An Ashland woman is dead after being hit by a van near Busby early Friday morning.

The Montana Land Board is holding public hearings this week over whether to lease for development state land near Ashland that contains roughly 600 million tons of coal.

Park Improvements Ed Olmstead, representing the Edgemont Lions Club, explained that the Lions Club has been working on park improvements and they would like to return the "peninsula" to its original island formation and place a bridge between the park and the island.