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Justice Department Investigating Zinke
CNN reports that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. The full extent of the inquiry is unclear, but suggests Zinke is under investigation for possibly using his office for personal gain. According to the report, the Interior Department’s inspector general has conducted numerous public inquiries into the former Navy Seal and Montana congressman, including
Bomb Scare at Billings TV Station
Another in a series of attacks on the Constitutionally-protected free press has occurred, and this time, it happened in Billings. Police detonated a suspicious box and a second device that looked like an explosive, found outside the studios of KTVQ in downtown Billings...
Self-Inflicted Gunshot Tuesday
Q2 reports an unidentified, 47-year-old Billings man suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the leg early Tuesday, but that’s not how it was initially reported to police. BPD Sgt. Bret Becker said a woman reported that her boyfriend had been shot around 2am this morning and she was driving him to a hospital...
Crash in Global Recycling Market Hits Billings
The Gazette reports a crash in the global recycling market has left Billings businesses scrambling to survive. Scott Berens is the owner of Earth First Aid Recycling in Billings, who says a move by China last year to no longer import U.S...
Trump Media Buy and MAGA Rally Schedule
CBS News reported today that the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump has launched a $6 million broadcast and digital ad buy in battleground states– including Montana– to urge voters to back Republicans in next week’s midterm elections...
Rescued Hunter Trapped Under ATV
MTN News reports that an unidentified 69-year-old hunter was rescued Monday after reportedly being trapped under his ATV for about 44 hours in the Clark Canyon area in Beaverhead County. He’s now in a Missoula hospital. On Sunday, at approximately 1 p...
MTN/MSU Poll Shows Trump, Bullock Most Popular
Political season is polling season and an odd couple top the popularity charts in Big Sky Country– Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic Governor Steve Bullock. Q2 reports that Trump has an approval rating of 54.5 percent in Montana – more than any politician in the state– but just barely edges out Bullock, who scored a 54...
MFWC Buys 5000 Acres
The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has approved pursing the purchase of nearly 5,000 acres of the Big Belt Mountains southeast of Helena for the state’s newest wildlife management area. Under state ownership, the area north of Townsend would be managed for elk and deer winter range and open up new public hunting opportunities...
STD’s On The Rise
Health officials say cases of sexually transmitted diseases have increased in Montana. The Missoulian reports Dr. Chris Baumert, a family physician at RiverStone Health in Billings, says “It’s really shot up in terms of syphilis and gonorrhea cases in Montana, as well as chlamydia...
Trump Denounces Threats, Campaigns in Wisconsin
President Trump spoke from the White House on Wednesday afternoon, denouncing the bomb scares targeting several prominent Democrats, including the families of former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, former CIA Director John Brennan, billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, Rep...