Lewis and Clark County News

No one was injured after a Cessna plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 15 southbound north of Craig on Friday.

An estimated 287 Montana taxpayers are due refund checks from the Internal Revenue Service.

Voters ousted two water and sewer board incumbents who did not support a special resort tax to pay for Craig's overburdened sewer system.

A group known as "The Tea Party Express" held a rally in Helena on Sunday morning to protest government spending and high taxes.

Can you pick the offender out of a lineup ? After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch in a civil suit over the player's death during a 2003 game in Helena.

A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.

After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch in a civil suit over the player's death during a 2003 game in Helena.

On Friday in Helena it was all about the women, as the city's first ever Women's Expo got underway at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds.

Just three weeks after Montanaa s full smoking ban went into effect, Lewis and Clark County issued its first warning letter for violation of the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act.

Late Friday afternoon, local health officials confirmed the first death in Yellowstone County related to the H1N1 virus.

State health officials reported a rise in H1N1 cases in Montana, though exact numbers are no longer being tallied.

The trial of Sebastian Olivares-Coster, the teenager charged with killing one Helena boy and injuring two other teens, will change his plea, it was announced today.

WINIFRED - The town of Winifred will receive federal stimulus money to improve its wastewater collection system.

A jury has determined that the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's office was not criminally liable in the death of a motorcyclist who crashed in Helena as he was being followed by a deputy.

A Billings middle school is seeing more absent students, who are home with flu and cold symptoms.

St. Peter's Hospital in Helena has closed visitation to anyone under the age of 24 as the H1N1 Flu keeps spreading.

Public health officials say a southwestern Montana resident died this week after being hospitalized for complications from the swine flu.

HELENA - New efforts are being made to commemorate the man who in 1911 flew an airplane over the Continental Divide, to make sure the moment is not lost to history.

Public health officials say a southwestern Montana resident died this week after being hospitalized for complications from the swine flu.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... AUTHORITIES SAY 81-YEAR-OLD LEO ERHARDT OF BILLINGS HAS DIED, THE RESULT OF BEING HIT BY A PICKUP TRUCK IN HELENA LAST MONTH.