Choteau News

Forest Road 144 between the saddle at the entrance to the Teton Pass Ski Area and the West Fork Bridge would be closed weekdays starting sometime in September to allow a log-home contractor to remove big spruce ...

The Choteau City Council last week approved the preliminary 2008-09 budget at its Aug.

With almost four weeks remaining in summer, it's far too soon to say Montana has skated on this year's wildfire season.

Carol Rice and Sean C. Strickland were married Aug. 8 in Shelby. Judge Russ Mann officiated.

Brittani Nickol of Helena was first runner-up at the 2008 Miss Teen of Montana Scholarship and Recognition Pageant.

A new study says protecting homes from forest fires in Montana is costing the state millions of dollars extra, and it's only going to get more expensive as more residents settle on large rural lots.

Light wind, blazing sun, spectacular views - and a grizzly bear on the race course - highlighted the 2008 Grizzly Marathon and Half Marathon road races on Aug.

Last year the fire season cost the state $81 million. This year it's a lot less, more like $3 million, and the state's Fire Suppression Interim Committee wants to keep it that way.

Committees of the Montana Legislature meet regularly during the interim between regular sessions to conduct in-depth studies of a wide variety of topics of public interest.

Cortney Bromenshenkof Billings Jessica Riffel of Big Sandy 3. Amanda Willekes of Choteau 4. Jordyn Wagner of Billings 5. Trey Nansel of Billings Wilson Ogg of Cascade Cyril Hergenrider of Fromberg 3. ...

Choteau Acantha photographer and printer Don LaBaugh is working his last full-time week.

Giant Springs is a Montana treasure that inspires many artists. More than 15 area artists will sketch and paint in Giant Springs State Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the fifth annual Community Artist ...

A decade-long partnership between the Great Falls Clinic and Teton Medical Center in Choteau recently came to an end.

We were packed up and on the road for 7.15 am which was beautiful as the sun was just coming up.

Ranchers, farmers and agribusinesses have raised the lion's share of $12.5 million to construct a new bioscience teaching building at Montana State University's mother campus in Bozeman.

Huckleberries are ripening: We found several patches on the Divide between Butte and Helena while scouting an old elk hunting area over the weekend.

Interest in putting cell phone towers to cover the Choteau area is heating up. Tetra Tech of Bothell, Wash., placed two legal notices in the July 23 Acantha edition asking for comments regarding the effect that ...

For the second time in its six years of existence, the Choteau Youth Ranch Inc. has closed its doors, and at this time, the future of the facility is undetermined.

CONRAD - Jeff Sutherland is saddened at the drop in customers from Malmstrom Air Force Base this year at his drive-in restaurant.

A government trapper says he did all he can to catch one and possibly two grizzly bears, suspected of killing 71 sheep in three separate attacks south of Choteau.