Townsend News

TOWNSEND - Kenneth L. Sofil, 75, a decorated Army veteran, died of lung cancer Sunday at the Fort Harrison hospital.

Great Falls Development Authority officials laid out a strategic plan at their annual investors' luncheon, which included goals, roadblocks and ways to overcome those roadblocks.

A Butte-Silver Bow Council member says he has the votes to stop the Mountain States Transmission Intertie or MSTI power line proposal in the county.

Tonbridge Power Inc. announced Tuesday it has entered into an agreement with wind power developer Gaelectric North America Inc.

BOZEMAN - Record-low temperatures in southwestern Montana are threatening to destroy at least a portion of this season's crop of seed potatoes.

In the summer of 1845 the steamboat Antelope was chugging up the Missouri River out of St.

A 72-year-old Townsend man died in a Friday evening crash on Highway 12. The man died after losing control of his vehicle while trying to avoid another vehicle that had slowed to pull off Highway 12 between Avon and Garrison, according to the Montana Highway Patrol.

MISSOULA - The Montana Highway Patrol says two people were killed in highway crashes over the weekend.

Jason Howard Gillett, 35, of Great Falls and Bellevue, Neb.,, who served as an Air Force tech sergeant until receiving a medical discharge in 2006, died of cancer Sept.

Walter Breuning didn't get blubbery about it, but the world's oldest living man appeared touched by two honors presented to him Thursday by railroad officials in Great Falls.

Congressman Denny Rehberg will be back on the road next week ready to hear more ideas from Montanans on the contentious health care issue.

Public comment is sought on proposed fishing regulation changes for 2010, including a requirement for artificial lures only in the Fish Creek drainage.

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Authorities say a yearling black bear who broke into a trash bin near Townsend in search of food has been shot and killed.

U.S. Senator Jon Tester's new Forest Bill seemingly aims to please everyone, and The News Station's Kay Rossi was in Townsend as Tester unveiled his plan for Montana's forests.

TOWNSEND - Standing with loggers, outfitters, conservationists, hunters and fishermen who spent years working together on a plan for Montana's forests, Sen.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Opposition to Montana-Idaho power line grows At a meeting Thursday night in Butte, the head of the "Move MSTI" association, said that membership in the group that opposes all three proposed routes of a NorthWestern transmission line that will run between Townsend, Mont., to Twin Falls, Idaho, is ...

Belt is full of bull this weekend. The Dusty Gliko Bullriding Challenge begins at 7 tonight and Saturday at the Belt Rodeo Grounds.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... THE 5-FOOT-9 MIDDLE BLOCKER WAS AN ALL-STATE PERFORMER FOR BROADWATER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL THIS PAST SEASON, LEADING THE BULLDOGS TO THE STATE CLASS B TITLE.

In Montana, the security, the identity and even the survival of many small towns revolve around a handful of fixtures: a school, a grain elevator, a post office, one or more churches and bars, and - not least - a hospital.