The Montana Motor Vehicle Department’s Helena office is moving locations to offer what state officials said would be an improved customer experience.
St. Peter's Health Foundation received $732,000 in grant funding to expand its forensic nursing program for victims of sexual violence.
A male student accused of bringing a loaded handgun onto the C.R. Anderson Middle School campus was charged Wednesday, Helena police said.
The Carroll College Talking Saints won two awards at the British Parliamentary debate championships, a national competition, before ending its year.
The profound appreciation for public lands and natural environments — and a pervasive feeling of worsening quality of life — were widespread across the state's normally gaping political divide.
Here's what's happening in the Helena area's arts and entertainment scene.
The 51st annual Helena Farmers Market is set to open Saturday with vendors lining two blocks along Fuller Avenue in downtown Helena.
C.R. Anderson Middle School principal Kathleen Prody emailed families about a student who appeared to be intoxicated and after investigating, a loaded weapon was found in the student's possession.
Nothing heightens the senses like roaming griz country alone, whether on two feet or hunched over two wheels as a meaty lime-green semblance of a wounded cow elk.
A tribal attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Jackson was former chief legal counsel to the Montana Department of Natural Resources.
Brothers Joe and Frank Mares needed an ice source. They had a market in Helena on Main Street near Sixth Avenue and needed more ice.
On April 26-27 about 184 handbell ringers from 18 church and community choirs in Montana, Washington and Idaho will descend on Helena for the 41st Annual Big Sky Handbell Festival.
"Throughout the country, mail is unfortunately being used to introduce drugs into prison facilities," the Montana Department of Corrections said.
The numbers are so high that a researcher initially had a hard time believing them. A Lee Enterprises investigation gives insight about the forces that have been fueling these deaths.
Filmed in Tuscany, “La Chimera” escorts us on a leisurely walk around Italy – on the beaches, in the pubs and among old graves.
The Legislative Audit Committee "insisted" the corrections department provide "material" outcomes in six months.
Two conservation groups and U.S. agencies have reached a settlement on a lawsuit over a a 20-year logging and burning project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.
A top concern for local election workers throughout the country this year is their own safety. A group formed after the 2020 presidential election is traveling the country helping them prepare for what could lie ahead.
About 130,000 Montanans who have lost Medicaid coverage as the state reevaluates everyone’s eligibility following a pause in disenrollments during the covid-19 pandemic.
The Supreme Court will consider a straightforward but legally untested question: whether a former president is immune from federal prosecution for official acts.
We're adding two new full-time reporting positions in Montana. Here's where, and why.
Both Lewis and Clark County and the city of Helena are updating their growth policies to meet the Montana Legislature’s most recent requirements.
An East Helena woman died Sunday at St. Peter's Hospital after a head-on collision at the intersection of York Road and East Custer Avenue, authorities said.
Two East Helena schools were vandalized over the weekend, with officials saying damage was so extensive at one campus, East Valley Middle School, that classes were canceled Monday.
The National Homelessness Law Center called it the "most significant case about homelessness in 40+ years."
Lewis and Clark County Public Health is joining with St. Peter’s Health and the Helena Police Department to increase behavioral health and crisis intervention services.
A collection of the best images from the cameras of Independent Record photographers last week.
Helena Public Schools Superintendent Rex Weltz writes about the 100th anniversary of the Vigilante Parade, the May 7 vote and a slew of school activities coming up.
There will be a partial closure of Henderson from 7 a.m. to noon Tuesday, city of Helena officials said.
“There’s not a lot of bright lights, there’s not a lot of flashy things, it’s just a very low-key place where hard workers come to work together.” — Rocky Shields
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Having their elders sent to boarding school or suffering from addiction "likely contributes to the moment that an Indigenous person finds themself encountering the police,” one expert said.
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Four members of the Montana men’s tennis team earned all-Big Sky Conference honors, highlighted by a unanimous first team selection for Tom Bittner.
Helena had six individual champions at the Western Top 10 meet on Tuesday in Missoula, but four came from Logan Todorovich and Aayden Simmons.
The Big Sky Conference announced its 2024 all-conference teams and individual award winners for women's tennis, with Montana winning all three top honors.
The top 10 marks in each event put up by Montana high school athletes this season.
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Movie critic Bruce Miller says that if you get an invitation to dinner from "Abigail" just say it got lost in the mail. She's a messy eater.
In the first season of the new PBS show, Dule Hill visits a luthier school, interviews an LGBTQ+ mariachi band and rehearses with a senior citizen burlesque group.
Gannon Hanevold took on the ultimate pop music challenge — ranking all 11 Taylor Swift albums, including the latest, "The Tortured Poets Department."
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Get Healthy. Sleep is not a luxury. It’s a key factor for good health.
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