Wolf Point News

Police say fellow motorists came to the aid of a Wolf Point man last week and rescued him Tule Creek as the water level rose in his vehicle after crashing into the creek.

The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center has announced the fifth class of inductions into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame.

She attend- ed Culbertson schools and, upon graduation in 1937, she worked as a telephone operator and then for Montana-Dakota Utilities in Williston and Wolf Point for four years.

With a May 15 deadline looming that could result in the closing of seven area post offices and 78 other rural post offices in Montana, the state's two senators have urged the U.S. Postmaster General to extend a moratorium beyond May 15 so that the U.S. House of Representatives can consider a Senate-passed bill that would reform the U.S. Postal ... (more)

The Wolf Point Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture voted unanimously last week to accept the return of 29 acres along U.S. Hwy 2 that had been donated to the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center for an intended museum in Wolf Point.

About a hundred more voters cast ballots in Wolf Point school board mill levy elections last week than a year ago and an even wider percentage of voters rejected both mill levy increases despite a campaign surge by the school leaders in the final days leading up to the May 8 election.

The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday a plan to close Kalispell's mail-processing center this summer, a decision that has drawn the ire of Montana Sen.

Wolf Point School District 45-45A voters have overwhelmingly rejected two mill levies requested by the school district.

The sign along U.S. Highway 2 proclaiming Wolf Point the official home of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame has become a bitter reminder to residents of this northeastern Montana town of what might have been.

The Roosevelt County Library brought Western frontier history to life for dozens of guests, including many children, during two programs at the library in April that marked the "Lewis and Clark Heritage Celebration." On Saturday, April 28, the audience was entertained by author Robert Bird Baker as he portrayed "Pierre Crouzatte's Ghost," a French ... (more)

The June trial date of a Florida man being held at the Roosevelt County jail on a charge of negligent homicide has been postponed.

Wolf Point School district voters will soon decide a contest between the school board's former chairman and a freshman member of the board.

The National Weather Service says that Wolf Point likely broke the record temperature on Monday, April 23, when the mercury soared to an unseasonably warm 89 degrees, according to the airport's weather station.

Wolf Point school board representatives have reached tentative agreements with the school district's two unions that would freeze the base salaries of all certified and classified employees, and also cap costs for individual health care policies at the current rates.