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“What really makes the city run well are the employees”

Greg Doyon was pru dently circumspect in his comments earlier this week as he took over as city manager of Great Falls. via Great Falls Tribune

“It's going to devastate the drug task force”

KALISPELL - A campaign is under way to restore money for Montana's seven regional drug task forces after funding was slashed by 67 percent nationwide in President Bush's fiscal year 2008 budget. via Great Falls Tribune

A campaign is under way to restore money for Montana's seven regional drug task forces. via Montana's News Station

THOMPSON FALLS - A drunken driver, convicted of running down two Flathead Valley teenagers a year ago near Plains, has been sentenced to 10 years in the custody of the Montana Department of Corrections. via Great Falls Tribune

“There's a lot of history in this old barn”

SOMERS - A two-headed brook trout is preserved in a jar of alcohol at the Flathead Lake Salmon Hatchery south of Somers. via Great Falls Tribune

Longtime Flathead Valley broadcaster George Ostrom has left KOFI-AM after he says he was told not to air a story about a former station employee who has been indicted for mail fraud. via Montana's News Station

Authorities in the Flathead Valley are investigating the shooting death of a toddler near Kalispell. via KPAX

Construction on U.S. Highway 2 on Havre is getting back underway on Monday. We're told that traffic in downtown Havre will be diverted to two single lanes on the south side as preparations are made to mill off ... via KRTV

“Experience has shown us that people will arrive en masse after a fire to harvest mushrooms”

Come spring, rising like a phoenix from the ashes of a fiery forest summer season, a fungus will emerge to entice hordes of humans into the woods of western Montana. via Missoulian