Park County News

A story in this week's issue of the Independent looks at Montana Pain Management , a medical marijuana clinic on Third Street with some 350 patients run by Rick Rosio.

There was good news and better news this week related to something that is generally viewed as bad news in Montana: the issuance of the next year's property tax statements.

The wintry weather caused dozens of accidents and slide-offs from Butte to Bozeman on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Church Universal and Triumphant leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet has died in Bozeman at the age of 70.

BILLINGS - The Park County Sheriff's Office says a man has been attacked by a bear in southwestern Montana.

A man was taken to the hospital after being attacked by a bear on Saturday morning in the Coulter Pass area, near Cooke City.

BILLINGS - The Park County Sheriff's Office says a man has been attacked by a bear in southwestern Montana.

HELENA - The Montana Supreme Court has ruled a trial is needed in the case of a former Park County man who sued the state and county over injuries he suffered in a fatal crash of a prisoner transport van near Dillon in March 2003.

A Livingston state representative is questioning whether Hardin officials and American Police Force have violated the Montana constitution.

LIVINGSTON - No charges will be filed against a former Livingston middle school student teacher who reported accidentally bringing a gun to the school.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks on Tuesday closed Hunting District 500-20, which includes parts of Park and Sweet Grass counties, to the hunting of bighorn sheep.

Jason Howard Gillett, 35, of Great Falls and Bellevue, Neb.,, who served as an Air Force tech sergeant until receiving a medical discharge in 2006, died of cancer Sept.

What are we going to tell the kids? It's not the first question that parents might ask each other when one of them gets laid off, but it is probably in the top five.

Marilou Lawellin, 82, who worked at Mountain Bell for 26 years, died at Billings Clinic on Aug.

Wade Dokken looks over plans for the Ameya Preserve with Park County officials in 2006.

LIVINGSTON - Park County officials say divers have recovered the body of a Livingston-area man in Dailey Lake.

Park County officials say an 89-year-old Bozeman man drowned over the weekend while fishing on the Shields River.

LIVINGSTON - A 15-year-old Livingston girl has denied a charge that she tried to poison her father with Jell-O tainted with lamp oil.

Park County authorities say that a Livingston man was found dead of an apparent suicide in the county jail.

This April 22 photo shows Gardiner School Junior High School track team members warming up on the track as a bison crosses their path in Gardiner, Mont.. In the southern Park County town, elk and bison are often seen around homes and businesses.