Townsend News

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.

The planting of the trees completed the Toston Smelter Site clean up that started back in September and advanced the Governor and First Lady's math and science initiative.

BILLINGS - The Montana Army National Guard says it will activate a new unit in Billings next month.

A new group against a proposed project by NorthWestern Energy to build and operate a 500 kilovolt electric transmission line has formed.

Granted: You usually don't find the terms 'customer friendly' and 'department of motor vehicles' in the same sentence.

WASHINGTON - In 1979, the shah fled Iran, Three Mile Island suffered a partial meltdown and "The Deer Hunter" snagged best picture at the Oscars.

HELENA - A mountain flying instructor died in an airplane crash about 2.5 miles southeast of the Canyon Ferry airstrip near Townsend, Department of Transportation officials said Thursday.

Montana game managers are writing the Montana Bighorn Sheep Conservation Strategy, a comprehensive management plan looking at bighorns in Montana in the past, the present and the future.

The Broadwater County coroner has identified a 26-year-old man who died in a head-on collision near Townsend.

January thaw is now building into the state of Montana. High pressure is slowly building throughout the western US and the Pacific NW and is expanding into western Montana late this afternoon.

A Montana woman who pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of a missing South Carolina woman in order to attend an Ivy League school is to be sentenced next month.

A good bakery can be hard to find. Particularly when you drive Montana backroads.

The roof of Hardware Hank in Townsend was blown off Monday night during a storm that brought with it blizzard-like conditions.

The walls of Dr. Michael Sura's private office seemed to bulge with exuberance as his young family entered the small room.

Loyola Sacred Heart and Eureka each placed a pair of players on the Class B all-state volleyball squad, which was voted on by league coaches recently.

Eliza Wiley IR photo editor - The Elks Lodge donated 950 age-appropiate dictionaries to third-grade students from Townsend, Boulder, Wolf Creek and the Helena Valley.

A standing-room-only crowd packed a meeting room at the Helena Regional Airport Monday to learn more about the potential to turn wood into energy, but not all who attended left convinced it is an economical ...