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This Monday, I'll be joined on the show by a special guest co-host, as fellow American Legion Legionairre George Blackard joins us in studio. We’ll feature veterans from across the state, and possibly even overseas- with a live Memorial Day show.

For those of you who caught the first few minutes of our "Montana Talks" radio show, we got a phone call on Thursday from Susan Reneau highlighting all of the Memorial Day events taking place in Missoula on Monday. I promised you I would post her full note on our website. Check it out belo…

Havre, Montana showed up on Fox News, CNN, and in the Washington Post earlier this week. This, after a border patrol agent on the Hi-Line Montana town questioned two women at a gas station who he overheard speaking Spanish. (KTVH-TV in Helena was first to report this story)
The charges of "racia…

One of the most significant effects of the Clark Fork River flooding is the danger of toxic materials stored for the last half-century in the old Smurfit settling ponds that are separated from the swollen river by only a series of earthen berms, being released into the river.

Trial preparations for Tiffanie Rae Pierce and Augustus Storm Standingrock are underway by both the Missoula County Attorney’s office and the two defense attorney

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals released an opinion this week in a longstanding debate over Montana Political Practices law.

A Billings man who died in the Smith River south of Great Falls on Monday has been identified as 44-year-old Chad NewBreast. The river was running high and fast, and investigators believe that the two-man boat rounded a corner on the river and hit a large rock, causing the boat to capsize...

Q2 reports on a shooting outside of an apartment complex at 801 South 28th Street in Billings. Paramedics treated a male victim for a gunshot wound to the neck. He was still conscious and breathing.
According to Billings Police Chief Rich St...

In the battle for a chance to face incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in November, an outside group with deep pockets is making significant advertising buys in Montana’s Republican primary race – this time to support state Auditor Matt Rosendale– while targeting fo…

'On Monday May 21st at 5:45 AM, the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office in Hamilton received reports of a vehicle that drove into the Selway River approximately 50 miles west of Darby MT, in the backcountry of Idaho County.

Q2 reports that six residents are suing to stop the city of Billings from imposing franchise fees on water, sewer and garbage services that are directed to the city’s general fund. The six rate payers are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Yellowstone County District Court, alleging th…

The man accused of shooting at two probation and parole officers before engaging Billings police in a standoff downtown earlier this month pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday at his arraignment.
60-year-old Michael Jeffrey Anderson was arraigned in Yellowstone County District Court Monday on two…

If you had to find a storybook photo of the big bad wolf from Little Red Riding Hood- this one definitely comes close. Check out this "wolf-like" creature that was killed near Denton, Montana.

The Gazette reports an amber alert issued early Monday was quickly canceled after a 16-month-old boy and his biological father were located at a Billings South Side residence, according to police.
On Monday morning, the Billings Police Department issued an amber alert after Christopher Joseph Getsdow…

Q2 reports two longtime Billings residents, charged in Utah with the murder of their daughter, have been ordered to stand trial. 26-year-old Miller Costello and his 23-year-old wife, Brenda, were ordered Friday by an Ogden, Utah judge to stand trial on a charge of aggravated murder in the 2017 abuse…

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox, along with the attorneys general of Ohio and Washington, led a coalition of 39 state and territory attorneys general calling on congressional leaders to promptly pass measures to help hold opiod manufacturers accountable for their role in the current opiod epidemic.