The Bear Smart working group recently completed a Bear Hazard Assessment, which revealed problems with garbage as the number one issue facing Missoula’s bear population.

It’s been over a year since Arden Pepion vanished from the Two Medicine River area on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

The project will repair tree root damage, crack seal, overlay and fog seal on a one-mile stretch of the Northside Greenway Path. 

Whether you want to stay close or go a little farther, western Montana has plenty of options for fun things to do this Fourth of July.  

Stone-Manning took time to discuss BLM’s grazing policies, abandoned mine clean-up, wilderness study areas, energy development and recreation management.

The multi-day celebration marked the first time the powwow has taken place in the past two years after organizers suspended the event due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The committee had 50 rules to finish, but spent all last week on four rules, reaching consensus on two.

Around 3:40 p.m. Missoula Rural Fire was dispatched to the 100 block of Tower Street for a structure fire. The caller reported seeing smoke coming from a storage building. 

Annie Belcourt has always been curious about her surroundings.

A 22-year-old Libby resident died after losing control and crashing his motorcycle near Whitefish on Thursday, according to the Montana Highway Patrol. 

Although no subdivision has been proposed yet, removing the no-access strip has the potential to make it possible for a nearby property owner to build to the south of Water's Edge Subdivision. 

Thieves took not only historic bear memorabilia but current wildlife research files.

A Mexican food truck and a local mobile tiki bar are partnering up. Also, Missoula's free bus service is starting Sunday routes for the first time ever, and the Poverello Center is hosting a picnic.

“It is kind of like Christmas, you just can’t wait to see what you get,” said Blake Hames, who has come to the auction each year for more than a decade.

Fort Belknap President Jeffrey Stiffarm called the ruling “another attempt to dilute the sovereignty of Indian nations,” and a “slap in the face.”

The city now has six months to pick the item up off the table or the resolution’s sponsor will need to come forward with a new proposal.

The Montana Department of Transportation is in the process of redoing the west-side shared-use path. 

"Death in the West" is a historical true-crime podcast hosted by four long-time Missoulians, in which the first 10-episode season explores the 1917 murder of Frank Little.