Browning News

HELENA - Last month employees at Teeples IGA Foodliner in Browning held a secret ballot election to form a union.

MISSOULA - Lucille Candace Tucker, 72, of Missoula, died of cancer Wednesday in Missoula.

TWO MEDICINE - John Patrick "Bup" Murray III, 34, of Two Medicine, whose Indian name was Iik-kso-pa-pii, which translates as "Smiles While He Smokes" or "Whirlwind," died Thursday at his home.

Native American culture takes center stage at the 20th annual Lewis and Clark Festival this weekend.

An unwilling government begging for his life, and an unhappy family begging the Montana government to take it.

The Blackfeet Nation will host the fifth annual Blackfoot Confederacy Conference June 22-25. Conference events will be held near the St.

A $1.2 million transportation grant has paved the way for Blackfeet Transit in Browning to double its existing fleet and allow for the group to begin a shuttle service to Great Falls and other nearby towns.

A lot of people on the Blackfeet Reservation around Browning and East Glacier Park are hoping the third time is the charm.

The Montana Legislature established a Ground Water Investigation Program this past session, and on July 1, scientists will begin studying seven targeted basins to compile information on aquifers.

BROWNING - In the spring of 2003, the end of a decades-long wait to deliver pristine drinking water from a nearby reservoir to the taps of East Glacier Park and Browning residents was said to be about a year away as construction continued on a multimillion dollar treatment plant.

SHEPHERD - Edward Merton "Bud" Comly, 68, of Shepherd, died of natural causes Tuesday at his home.

Northern Rocky Mountain Front, Eastern Glacier, Cascade, Central and Southern Lewis & Clark, Southern Rocky Mountain Front, Judith Basin, Fergus, Broadwater, and Meagher counties, including the cities of Browning, Cut Bank, Choteau, and White Sulphur Springs T he National Weather Service in Great Falls has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for snow ...

BROWNING - Louis Gobert was prescribed methadone - a powerful, highly addictive painkiller - for chronic migraines.

BROWNING - From their classroom doorways, teachers shout to students trudging shoulder-to-shoulder through the Browning High School hallway - "keep it moving," "keep to the right." A student lets out a long "Moooo!" With 600 students crammed into a building built in the 1950s to accommodate 350 students, it's easy to understand why they might ...

Many Montanans live for summer. For Native Americans, summer heralds the arrival of long days of dancing under the Big Sky with the official beginning of powwow season.

The Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning will start its summer hours on June 1. It will be open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission fees are $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $1 for children ages 6-12 and children under 6 are admitted free.

BROWNING - Jacoby James Calf Looking, son of Christie Farmer and Chris Calf Looking of Browning, was stillborn May 15 at a Cut Bank hospital.

Heading into the final weekend of softball before the playoffs, Polson holds a slim advantage over Columbia Falls for first place in Western A after defeating the Wildkats 12-3 on Thursday.

BELOATE/DUMAS - Son born Friday to Jazmyn Beloate and Shawn Dumas. CLAYTON/SKOGEN - Son born Friday to Sarah Clayton and Brandon Skogen of Great Falls.

CUT BANK - The days of Glacier County's "Gunsmoke jail" - overcrowded, stinky and decrepit for much of its nearly 70-year existence - will soon be a distant memory, locked up with the keys thrown away.