Missoula County News

The Missoula County commissioners' decision this week to hire Frenchtown Fire Chief Scott Waldron to review proposed subdivisions in the area has fire board members scratching their heads.

A Missoula man and woman are in jail after allegedly stealing sodas and candy from a group of teenage boys under the guise of police officers, then threatening to "cap them." Maksim Chinikaylo, 25, and Anna ...

A Missoula judge says two men, accused of beating a homeless man to death, cannot receive fair trials in Missoula and must be tried elsewhere.

The Missoula Rural Fire District will ask voters next week to reconsider a proposed tax hike that was barely defeated in May.

A 21-year-old Missoula man was charged Friday with negligent homicide for his alleged role in a high-speed street racing crash that killed one man and injured four others near Turah.

With but a sixth-grade education, A.J. Gibson left his home in Ohio and headed west to Butte with little more than his highly honed skills in carpentry and building.

It's not a big deadline as elections go, but it's still important. Thursday marks the last day local governments can put money or policy issues on the November ballot.

The New Superintendent of Missoula County Public Schools says it's up to residents to determine our own destiny.

"We would respond immediately and send somebody out to take a look," Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg told the Chronicle Wednesday.

Three Missoula County men made their first appearances in court Wednesday, July 13 in front of Judge John Larson in an Alberton assault case.

The Red Quill wildfire that erupted at 2 p.m. Tuesday and is currently burning in the Upper Woodchuck area of the Sapphire Mountains near Florence is estimated at between 15 and 20 acres in size, said Cindy ...

A Montana Highway Patrol officer has recommended drug charges be filed against a 32-year-old Butte man whose left arm was severed in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 east of Missoula.

The deafening silence ended Monday. Weeks of public hearings have gone by at Missoula City Council meetings with no citizen comments on the proposed 2009 budget.

A Montana effort to improve children's health insurance coverage dovetails with a national campaign to challenge the health care status quo.

Declines in the U.S. housing industry and timber availability damaged Montana's wood products industry in the first half of 2008, a University of Montana researcher said Monday.

As report cards go, Montana's schools are in for a doozy later this month. Preliminary reviews of the state's No Child Left Behind test results say that 71 percent of the schools passed their adequate yearly ...

Missoula students better brace themselves for a lot more adults telling them what to do in the next few decades.

After allowing toll-free telephone calls between Missoula County jail inmates and their public defenders for more than two years, Sheriff Mike McMeekin says lost revenue has forced the arrangement to cease.

A 34-year-old Missoula man was arrested early Saturday after allegedly forcing motorists off the road during a high-speed chase on Highway 200 in Bonner.

The Missoula County Sheriff's Office is still on the lookout for a suspect who robbed the Lucky Lil's North in Lolo on Friday morning.