School board meeting update from Sup Mark Wandle
Thanks for all you do. The meeting had many things so this will be a long update. I will do my best to keep it brief. Reports were covered- thanks that were doubled were to our staff verbally. All of you. The effort and stress of this time are noticed but we are […]
State of Emergency Declared by local officials to collect reimbursements
UPDATE: City/County Director John Felton has announced that in a few hours, they will issue an order demanding of closure of all bars and restaurants. Local governments are declaring a state of emergency, today, not so much because of any heightened threat from COVID-19, but to assure that cities and counties will be able to […]
Corona–what’s this all about?
As of press time, there have been no reported cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Montana, but it’s only a matter of time and there will be, said KC Williams, Yellowstone County’s Emergency Services director, earlier this week.
One Year Later, Lockwood Lions’ Pride in Progress
It’s been almost exactly a year since construction began on the Lockwood High School. It’s been a busy year with the project being tackled from numerous angles. On some days there were as many as 200 workers scattered across the Lockwood campus working inside and out on every aspect of the new school. Currently, with […]
Local politics weighted with heavy financing
Even though the City of Billings city council elections are supposed to be local and non-partisan, it seems that increasingly external groups or political action committees (PACs) are weighing-in, aligned with candidates based on party politics.
Garcia changing his tune with side-stepping letter
by Staff report As Billings Legislator Rep. Rodney Garcia dances around the fallout from both Garcia changing his tune with side-stepping letter Democrat and Republican party leaders as well as Republican leadership calls for him to resign, Garcia sent out a letter saying now that his comments were “delivered and perceived as a joke.”
Local Legislator rejects Leadership call to resign after hateful remarks
A local Billings Republican legislator, Representative Rodney Garcia, has attracted national attention for comments he made last Friday at the MT Republican Winter Kickoff meeting in Helena during a question and answer period. Garcia referred to the Constitution as his basis for his comments in that it is unacceptable to be a socialist and that […]
New TIF being proposed for Billings
A group of property owners in the west end of downtown Billings want to create a new tax improvement district. The proposed boundaries of the new district would be Division Street, 1st Avenue North and North 31st
MFPE Union pay raise contract finalized with Yellowstone County
A contract has been reached between the Montana Federation of Public Employees (MFPE) and Yellowstone County. According to Human Resources Director Dwight Vigness the union has agreed to a three-year contract, the primary focus of which is to raise worker wages at lower levels to the mid-point range of the pay scale. The agreement comes […]
Details released on Cessna crash near Dunn Mountain
Sunday, Jan. 12, at 3:10 a.m., an initial alert stated that a single-engine Cessna 182 flying from Hardin, MT was missing in the Billings area.