downtown Billings

Is cancelation fatigue setting in? Perhaps. It seems like I've written, "in a year full of cancellations" about a hundred times this year. Here comes another one.

When I rounded the corner from third street onto 27th Street the magnitude of the movement came into full view: easily 1,000 people were gathered on the sidewalk and in the park adjacent to the Yellowstone County Courthouse.

Construction that began last fall on N. 27th Street resumed on Monday (4/13) and is expected to take most of the summer. Here is what to expect regarding delays or detours.

With Billings under a Winter Storm Warning Wednesday morning, multiple accidents prompted the Billings Police Department to close Zimmerman Trail until further notice:

A man was reportedly found dead in downtown Billings early Saturday morning. According to the Billings Police, a jogger found the as yet unidentified male unresponsive on the sidewalk in the 2200 block of 1st Avenue North.
Police reportedly determined there was no foul play, or anything criminally su…

A man was hospitalized after being hit by a car while crossing Sixth Avenue in downtown Billings Tuesday morning.
Billings police Sgt. Harley Cagle said the man appeared to be jaywalking on Sixth between Broadway and 29th Street when a car struck him...

A Billings woman who was stabbed at a downtown grocery store Monday morning was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. The 74-year-old male suspect was arrested at the scene.
BPD spokesman Sgt. Harley Cagle described the man as a local transient...

The 9th annual Purple 5K raised money on Sunday morning for the Downtown Billings Alliance Spare Change for Real Change program. Q2 reports that runners started at Granview Park near St. Vincent and MSU Billings. The course took runners through Pioneer Park, into downtown Billings and finished at Sk…

Hammes Company President Bob Dunn, who has helped transform the vision and expectations for the One Big Sky Center project, visited Billings on Monday to meet with business leaders and the Billings City Council.
Since the plans have shifted from the original concept of Montana’s two tallest skyscrape…

In a 6-5 vote, the Billings City Council on Monday authorized spending $100,000 as part of a $675,000 public-private partnership to move the One Big Sky District into a year-long planning and development stage.
The council’s vote includes approval of a memorandum of agreement among the private and pu…