Montana/Region

Baby Jesus figurine stolen from nativity scene returned

BUTTE (AP) — A baby Jesus figurine stolen from a nativity scene at a Butte residence on New Year’s Day has been returned to its owners with two notes —

Garbage, human waste taking a toll on parks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks, as a partial

140 evacuated from chairlift

KALISPELL (AP) — A Montana ski resort says it has safely evacuated 140 people from a chairlift after a mechanical problem prompted operators to stop the lift. The Flathead Beacon

Park guides handling some duties with government shutdown

BOZEMAN (AP) — While there is no one working at Yellowstone National Park’s entrance stations or visitor centers due to the partial government shutdown, snowmobile and snow coach guides are

Billings middle school implements education initiative

BILLINGS (AP) — Riverside Middle School principal Kevin Kirkman wields a barcode scanner like a cashier. But he’s not scanning gifts or produce — he’s checking out students’ grades, which

Southwestern Montana skaters seek ‘wild ice’

HELENA (AP) — The sharp scrape of steel on ice cut through a rare windless December morning at the Silos on Canyon Ferry Reservoir as a quartet of skaters moved

REGION SHORTS

Southern Nevada recruiting for annual count of homeless LAS VEGAS (AP) — Southern Nevada is recruiting volunteers to estimate how many people are without homes or living in shelters. Michael

STATE SHORTS

Prosecutors want to push back trial in Frenchtown killing MISSOULA (AP) — Prosecutors want to move back the trial of a man accused of killing two people in western Montana

Wyoming has more worker deaths than national avg.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming again saw more workplace deaths than the national average in 2017. Twenty people died on the job in Wyoming last year, down from 27 in

Bighorn sheep herds inter-mingling in southwestern MT

CAMERON (AP) — If there’s anything better than seeing a bighorn ram, horns fully curled, it’s seeing 12. The number seemed to keep growing on a recent morning here, the