Pondera County News

His lone opponent Keith T. Melhus, who had 42 votes, also ran as a write-in. Karla Breding and Wendy Curry Judisch ran unopposed for council.

The 27-year-old man who died in a rollover crash near Valier on Sunday morning has been identified.

Nearly all Montana voters will cast their ballots in this fall's election with a stamp instead of at the polls.

Authorities have released the names of three men killed in a two-vehicle crash near Dupuyer in north-central Montana.

CONRAD - With his hand on his heart in a futile attempt to slow its nervous beating, Francis Erickson watched frozen as the crane lowered, leaving the 700-pound clock to hang on its brackets.

CONRAD - Donatus Alois Kronebusch, 90, of Conrad, a World War II Navy veteran and retired farmer and rancher, died of natural causes Sunday at a Conrad medical facility.

Two more defendants arrested in connection with a 2 1/2-year investigation in Choteau were identified Wednesday, and authorities said the case is bigger than early numbers suggest.

Ten suspects were arrested during a major marijuana bust in Teton and Pondera Counties.

A couple of young grizzly bears have been drawing attention in parts of Pondera and Toole counties and have even turned the heads of motorists on I-15 when the bruins were in a field east of the interstate.

A jury found a 59-year-old Conrad man decided to take his own life rather than go back to jail.

A coroner's inquest conducted today in Conrad found that the Pondera County Sheriff's Department was not culpable for the death of a man who shot himself after authorities allowed him to retrieve medication and tend to his livestock at his home.

A six person jury ruled that a suspect in Pondera County custody committed suicide back in February.

There are still questions surrounding the shooting of three Glasgow residents at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in January.

The birds were chirping; sunshine warmed your cheeks. It was easy to be lulled into the comfortable concept of spring.