Stevensville News

HAMILTON - The Ravalli County sheriff says a shooting death early Tuesday near Stevensville was a suicide.

Lots going on this week, so the Calendar Playa, filling in this week for Comrade Calendar, will get right to it.

Bozeman High School and Stevensville High have made Newsweek magazine's list of the top 1,500 high schools in the United States.

The Montana National Guard spent this week in the Bitterroot, training for a medical rescue mission that they could run into while serving overseas.

Ralph Emmett Filcher, 82, of East Helena, a Marine and longtime funeral director, died of chronic lymphocytic leukemia Thursday at his home.

The economy is in the toilet, but there's at least one industry that appears to be going great guns : the firearms business, particularly the firms that manufacture ammunition for American gun owners.

The bell at the Montana Veterans Memorial rang 35 times Monday afternoon - remembering those veterans from the state who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Driving through the Bitterroot Valley on U.S. Highway 93 was like being in an off-road race last summer.

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If you have ever wondered why you never seem to see your tax dollars at work, don't worry, they're working, just for somebody else.

The warmer temperatures mean that Bitterroot National Forest fire managers can now start with their prescribed spring burning which they say helps to reduce fuels and meet resource objectives.

Highland School District announced Monday that it will soon have a new superintendent.

Warmer temperatures and diminishing precipitation will allow Bitterroot National Forest fire managers to begin their spring prescribed fire program.

Firefighters are battling a wildlands fire burning in the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge in Stevensville.

You can find skwala stoneflies on many western waters, ranging from Washington's Yakima to Idaho's Owyhee and beyond, but nowhere do those bugs come off in such great numbers, with fish that act appropriately when that happens, than western Montana's Bitterroot River.

The Ravalli County Commission held a meeting earlier this week in an effort to negotiate cost differences between how many rabies shots were used and how many were leftover after 90 children were exposed to a rabid bat at Stevensville School.

There are three finalists left in the running to become the new Superintendent of the Highland School District.

HELENA - Four people were killed in separate crashes Tuesday near Miles City, Lodge Grass, Victor and Stevensville.

U.S. Highway 93 South near Stevensville has been closed down due to a traffic accident.

Some residents it the Bitterroot are starting to join up with the groundswell of "tea party" protests as people express frustration with political and business leaders.