Townsend News Archives

Beyond ballpark interlopers and skyscraping luxury condos, a real neighborhood is devel oping far south of Market.

A NorthWestern Energy official says with increasing demands for power and the high cost of energy, a proposed transmission line from Montana to Idaho would help spur more energy production and bring down your ...

By EVE BYRON - Independent Record - 06/11/08 Ginny Emery, IR staff photographer - A late-morning blizzard settles on Helena Tuesday.

By Bob Brastrup - For the Independent Record - 06/06/08 Submited photo - John Flynn stands on the new Bill Flynn Memorial Bridge, built by community members at the Flynn Cabin.

Lightning may have been a factor in the deaths of two young boys who died Friday evening when their go-kart went into the Missouri River.

The big hatch has finally emerged on the waters of Rock Creek, east of Missoula.

The highest-ranking member of the Montana House of Representatives faces one opponent in Tuesday's primary election - the winner of which will face an unopposed political newcomer in November.

Two boys from Helena drowned in the Missouri River Friday evening after their go-kart went off a road and landed in the water three miles south of Townsend.