Lewis and Clark County News

Josh Morin is taking his wrestling talent to the desert, and as far as he's concerned the heat's... FORT PECK - Bob Klein of Billings said it's worth the 270-mile one-way trip to Fort Peck Lake every... A Pacific storm system will bring widespread precipitation to northcentral Montana heading into the Memorial Day weekend, and the National Weather ... (more)

On March 23, 2009, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Haynes was driving on U.S. Highway 93 south of Kalispell when a drunken driver traveling in the wrong lane crashed head on into his patrol car.

Health officials say the number of whooping cough cases in Montana has passed 200 this year and they're encouraging people to get vaccinated against the contagious bacterial infection that can lead to uncontrollable coughing fits.

It's been an ongoing health problem in Montana this year. Four new cases of the whooping cough are confirmed in Lewis and Clark County.

Easter has come and gone, but an Easter egg-style hunt for young and old alike kicks off May 15 at... EAST HELENA - Officials in Lewis and Clark County say a horse had to be euthanized after falling through the floor boards of a trailer as it traveled through East Helena on U.S. Highway 12.

It's been about 18 months since Jennifer Triplett and her father Jerome Klopatek left for work at 6:30 in the morning and woke up in the hospital.

Today as I was standing in line at my favorite lunch joint when my cell phone rang.

Eighteen new victims have added their names to litigation against the Helena Roman Catholic Diocese and Ursuline Nuns, Montana attorney Vito de la Cruz announced last week.

Over the weekend, a young Helena man assaulted a detention officer at the Lewis and Clark county jail.

Fred Scherrer Jr. holds his cattle and sheep brands. The cattle branding iron in Scherrer's right hand is used to form a cloverleaf pattern and is about 100 years old, with the metal starting to thin.

A family whose cabin along the Missouri River east of Helena was destroyed by flooding in 2010 just weeks after a downed power line caused a fire is suing NorthWestern Energy.

Eighteen new victims added their names to litigation against the Helena Diocese and Ursuline nuns for abuse they allege took place when they were children at Catholic parishes and boarding schools in Montana, according to a Tuesday news release from their Montana attorney, Vito de la Cruz.

Over the weekend, Lewis and Clark County made locations available to collect prescription drugs.