Big Timber News

BIG TIMBER - A bus carrying children at a church camp went off the road south of Big Timber Tuesday, injuring 19.

A bus crash south of Big Timber Tuesday afternoon injured 19 children and sent several to the hospital, complaining about sore necks, backs and legs.

LEWISTOWN - Jackolyn Faye "Jackie" DeMars, 72, died of heart disease Wednesday at a Great Falls hospital.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... THE "FLAME OF HOPE" LEFT THE BILLINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT TRAINING FACILITY ON MIDLAND ROAD THIS MORNING, BOUND FOR BIG TIMBER AND, EVENTUALLY, BOZEMAN, WHERE IT WILL BE USED TO LIGHT THE CAULDRON FOR THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS SUMMER GAMES.

Montana's lawmakers spent the 89th day of the 90 day legislative session making bi-partisan efforts in conference committee on Monday.

Ronald C. Selvage, 80, of Great Falls, a retired sheet metal worker, died of natural causes Saturday at a local nursing home.

During her seven sessions at the state Legislature, Sen. Trudi Schmidt authored bills that upped fines for speeding in school zones, helped curb methamphetamine production and studied health care reform.

Pioneer CEO Bren Lowe says, if passed, the levy would double taxpayer funding for the hospital, clinic and nursing home to $880,000 for a year.

Negotiations continue among members of the 61st Montana Legislature to pass an agreeable state budget as well as a plan for distributing federal stimulus money.

With less than two weeks left in the current legislative session, the Montana Senate is working to pass a bill to allocate federal stimulus funds.

Jacque Evanson had raised her grandchildren for seven years when her daughter came back into the picture.

The only hospital in Big Timber is facing huge budget shortfalls. Pioneer Medical Center has seen its revenue drop drastically since last year.

Montana has seen an increase in poaching over the last several years but there is a new interest by poachers in bobcats because the bobcat pelts continue to bring relatively high prices.

Seven Montana communities will receive a combined $1.6 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation to improve and expand airports: $477,376 for the Missoula International Airport to upgrade a ...

Its executive director says a Montana nonprofit group that supports world peace lost 75 percent of its assets in the alleged Bernard Madoff pyramid scheme.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... IT'S GOING TO GET VERY WINDY NEAR THE MOUNTAINS FROM HARLOWTON SOUTHWARD TO LIVINGSTON AND THE NYE AREA.

WEST WINDS WILL OCCUR IN THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE RIVER VALLEY TODAY. WIND SPEEDS OF 30-TO-45 MILES-AN-HOUR, WITH GUSTS TO 55, ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING, WITH A GRADUAL DECREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON.

It was the kind of town where the men who built the West - the railroad workers, ranch hands, and miners - had started to fade, replaced by service workers and fly-fishing operators.

Then, as metals prices began to climb five years ago, mining made a comeback to this little brick city on the Yellowstone River, contributing to the virtually full employment here and a sense of achieving a sustainable economy.

"One of the [shift workers] I worked with said once to me: 'Your grandchildren are going to be working in this mine,' " recalls Ben Tyner, until recently a worker at the nearby Stillwater Mine.

Tom Richmond refers to the Crazy Mountain Basin as a "nonproducing basin." But millions of dollars were spent this year with the hopes of proving him wrong.

STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE BILLINGS REGION THIS EVENING, AND WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT.