Pryor News

West of the Bighorn Mountains and due east of the Beartooth Mountains, and 30 miles from these, across the valley of the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone River, are the Pryor Mountains of southcentral Montana.

BILLINGS - A 51-year-old Pryor man with six drunken driving convictions, has been charged with his seventh.

Police in Billings say that a Pryor man who crashed his vehicle at the intersection of Blue Creek Road and Briarwood Boulevard early Wednesday morning, destroyed a major switch gear that cut power to as many as 50 households in the Briarwood area, some of them losing lights and heat for the second time in a week.

The Beartooth Ranger District of the Custer National Forest began selling Christmas tree tags this week.

MISSOULA - A partially completed wildlife study has found that black bears enter yards in Missoula at night to feast on apples.

BILLINGS - Two mobile breath alcohol testing vehicles intended to help reduce the number of alcohol-related fatalities on tribal lands are headed for Montana.

BILLINGS - Investigators said Tuesday in a preliminary report that weather conditions were poor at the time of last week's plane crash that killed two men near Pryor.

KALISPELL - A 29-year-old Kalispell woman has pleaded not guilty to driving drunk and causing a three-vehicle crash that injured seven people.

MORE PHOTOS ARE AVAILABLE BY CLICKING ON "Photographs" ABOVE. More than 3000 lightning strikes hit the Crow Reservation as a cold front passed through Monday, August 31.

Photo Gallery: Pryor Mountain fire A wave of lightning strikes has sparked a number of wildfires south of Billings in the Pryor Mountains.

Beginning today, federal officials plan to thin by more than a third a wild horse herd that roams a mountain range along the Montana-Wyoming border.

BILLINGS - Federal officials say they will close off the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range beginning Monday to thin the 190-horse herd by about 70 animals.

Campground area fires: a A A A A A A A In the last week, four fires at Crow Fair campgrounds blackened less than an acre each, all during the day.A Flames on the Catfish 2 fire Friday reached 4 feet high.

One person is dead and another was arrested following an early morning accident Saturday just south of Billings.

A Billings resident walking her dog Sunday morning got a surprise she wasn't expecting, a black bear resting in the tree of neighbor's front yard.