HelenaIR.com – Helena, Montana daily news
News, sports, weather, crime and politics from Helena, Montana’s capital city
HelenaIR.com – Helena, Montana daily news
News, sports, weather, crime and politics from Helena, Montana’s capital city
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When the FBI arrested “Unabomber” Ted John Kaczynski at his cabin near Lincoln in April 1996, the Independent Record was there.
Editor's note: As part of the celebration of Helena's 150th birthday, this IR feature takes a historical glance at the local sports scene since the town was founded in 1864. Here is brief recap of the four major sports --…
It was just me, a dozen gabbling geese and a setting moon early Thursday morning at the Bill Roberts Golf Course.
Chase Benson, one of Helena High’s most imposing modern-day football players, has committed to play for the Montana State University Bobcats.
Reverend Slanky, a horn-powered funk and soul band from Missoula, takes the stage for this year’s 22nd annual Cool Dog Ball Friday night at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall. The event is a benefit for the Feb.…
An 89-year-old Cascade woman died in a single-vehicle rollover Thursday afternoon north of Craig.
Four western states along with federal, tribal and university partners are combining efforts in an unprecedented inventory of one of the high country’s most elusive carnivores.
BILLINGS -- The number of gonorrhea cases reported in Montana in 2015 nearly doubled from the previous year, state health officials said on Wednesday.
MISSOULA -- Montana’s superintendent of public instruction motored to Missoula on Wednesday to trumpet another record graduation rate last school year.
Rock work along Interstate 15 is planned to continue this year and delay traffic and recreational activity while crews are blasting.
After a rare strain of potentially fatal canine influenza was confirmed in Helena, Dr. Heidi Wampler of Alpine Animal Clinic in Helena released the following alert to help pet owners determine the difference between this illness and a cold virus:
If “worse came to worse” and lawmakers in either Washington or Oregon pass legislation that could lead to a partial shutdown of the coal-fired power plants in Colstrip, Sen. John Brenden, R-Scobey, wants Montana to be ready.
Authorities are seeking three suspects in connection with the theft of a pickup truck and credit card in Helena last week.
Helena Veterinary Service reported Tuesday that they have confirmed a case of a very rare strain of canine influenza, H3N2, in Helena.
The armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon, with calls by Ammon Bundy and his followers to turn federal land over to local and private control, has renewed a contentious debate played out in the last Montana…
BUTTE -- Missoulian Rick Tabish — first convicted then acquitted of murder in the death of Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion — seeks to turn the black slag piled along Highway 1 near Anaconda into a heaping profit.
Tom O’Connell, administrator of the state's Architecture and Engineering Division, uses a laser pointer to highlight maroon paint peeling away to reveal the white plaster below around the dome of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol building.
A statutory mandate on Montana’s Water Court threatens the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ water-rights compact passed during the last legislative session, along with other compacts not yet federally ratified, an attorney for the CSKT told a legislative interim committee…
Criminal patients at the overcrowded Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs will soon be housed at the former Reintegrating Youth Offenders facility in nearby Galen.
The investigation of Thursday's holdup at Lakeside General Store has led to the arrest of an 18-year-old Helena woman on suspicion of robbing B&B Market on New Year's Day.
On Monday, Gov. Steve Bullock announced plans to move 21 people from the Montana Developmental Center in Boulder to group homes around the state run by the nonprofit AWARE.
A Helena-based conservation group is putting a $40,000 grant it recently received towards restoring the aging cottonwood population along the Missouri River.
GREAT FALLS (AP) — A Havre teenager who went to work at an orphanage for special-needs children in India as part of her Make-A-Wish request is back home and feeling the glow of her trip.
MILES CITY — The 600 Cafe, a mainstay of eastern Montana dining, has closed.
Whether for recreation or research, winter in Montana is a world far removed from the balmy days of short sleeves and bug spray.
A sale of Helena's Capital Hill Mall property is moving forward, although a closing date has not yet been set, said the buyer, Brett Del Valle, the managing partner of Peninsula Retail Partners, LLC of Newport Beach, California.
Though the buzz in Colstrip last week was over the uncertainty facing the town’s coal-fired power plant posed by a federal mandate that Montana cut its carbon dioxide emissions almost in half by 2030, other forces that could shutter two…
Angela McLean waitressed her way through high school at the Blue Anchor in Twin Bridges. Through those years, she lived with a friend and her older sister, who was a single parent.
Playing a game was the last thing on the minds of the Bighorns on Saturday -- particularly Cody Vanthournout.
In a topsy-turvy Western AA boys basketball tilt in the Bears’ Den on Saturday, Helena High came out on top over Capital in the season’s first crosstown match, 49-43.
When City Mouse visits Country Mouse, she’s grumpy about the birds singing at dawn, the rustic food and sleeping in the leaves.
The news from Lake Wobegon is that Garrison Keillor is planning a third visit to Missoula.
Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, Montanans are actively engaged in selecting health care coverage for 2016 as a pair of signup deadlines loom.
“We survived.”No, that’s Gloria Gaynor singing her 1978 hit song.It’s Helena High girls basketball coach Eric Peterson’s initial comment after his team’s 46-39 win over Capital in the season’s first crosstown basketball game.
When a rare artifact disappeared from the Montana Historical Society Museum in 2003, there were no suspects nor any real clues as to what happened to the Sioux pipe bag.
Montana State Parks had another banner visitation year in 2015, setting a record for the third consecutive year.
BILLINGS -- The images are almost worthy of a modern art display — bright white bird bones appear suspended in midair against a black backdrop with faint outlines of wing and tail feathers barely visible.
“Gruesome Playground Injuries”: It's a title guaranteed to set many people on edge.
PLACID LAKE – Lake ice can creak and groan, pop and tinkle. And when it opens up underneath you, it may not make a sound.
Back in 2009, a Polson man named Paul Wencewicz created an invitation-only online bulletin board where members advertised and traded sexually explicit images of young girls.
Since the first Helena snowfall that required shoveling sidewalks, Greta Dige, the city of Helena’s code enforcement officer, has been busy.
Thursday’s winter blast dumped some of the highest snow accumulations in the region in the Helena area.
It was nearly 17 years ago that a pair of conservation-minded Montanans began a quest to help working ranchers and farmers keep their land in agriculture. In the recently passed federal budget bill, the initiative Rock Ringling and Bill Long…
Though Montana's newly redesigned driver's licenses and identification cards include increased security features, they still do not meet federal standards that might soon be required for air travel and access to federal buildings.
YWCA Helena will hold a grand opening and ribbon cutting on Wednesday after an extensive remodeling project.
Highway fatalities in Montana jumped 17 percent in 2015. While it’s too early to pin down the reason, state officials have their theories.
LOLO -- The Missoula County Attorney’s Office has filed felony aggravated animal cruelty charges against three men suspected of shooting house pets in the Lolo area with large blowgun darts in September and October.