UPDATE: Heights Water Board Rejects All Applications to Replace Drager on Board
A quorum of the Heights County Water District Board held a special meeting on Tuesday, March 26, with the intent of interviewing candidates who had applied to fill the position of Laura Drager, who resigned, on March 20, in order to apply for the position of General Manager. At the Tuesday meeting the board cancelled […]
State Proposes Adding 3 Judges to 13th District Court
The Montana Judicial System and Yellowstone County officials are organizing an effort to ask the next Montana State Legislature to fund three additional District Court Judges for Yellowstone County. Yellowstone County’s 13th Judicial District Court has the highest case load in the state by a wide margin, according to a recent survey, which concluded that […]
Road Connection Completed
Knife River recently completed a section of the Billings Bypass that connects the Yellowstone River crossing with the railroad and Coulson Road overpass, according to Dowl, the lead project engineering company for the Billings Bypass. Construction on the Montana Department of Transportation’s (MDT) Billings Bypass project continues with the completion of the Railroad Overpass roadway […]
Candidates Line Up to File for Office, Including Waters for County Commissioner
2024 is expected to be a really big election year. It’s predicted that the entire nation will be closely watching Montana’s US Senate race in which Sen. Jon Tester (D) will vie for re-election, with the outcome of that race possibly making the difference in the balance of the US Senate. On opening day for […]
Lives of Yellowstone County Special Edition
Yellowstone County News will be publishing a special edition of YCN called “Lives of Yellowstone County” and we’d like to include a little write up about your loved ones that passed away in the last year, Please send us a story/article about your loved one that is 500 words or less. You can include any […]
Court Says Counties Must Collect 95 Mills in Taxes for State
Property taxpayers will be getting an addendum to their property tax bill, following last week’s Montana Supreme Court decision in favor of the State regarding the amount of mills it may levy in property taxes. Almost all of the counties in Montana billed property owners less than the 95 mills the State claimed it had […]
Signal Peak CEO Responds to Environmental Groups’ Latest Complaint
Conservation groups sent a citizen complaint last week to state and federal agencies alleging that Signal Peak Energy (SPE), which runs the Bull Mountain Coal Mine near Roundup, is not complying with parts of its mining permit. The complaint alleges SPE is causing “subsidence cracks,” which have damaged land in and around SPE’s permit area. […]
More Details Emerge on J & J Homes
More Customers Come Forward; Records Reveal History of Bad Business On September 29, Yellowstone County News (YCN) reported on the story of several Huntley homeowners who met in August to discuss their many complaints against a Billings home dealer, J & J Homes, owned by Jason Wilcox. Three families shared their stories, which all follow […]
Nightmare Off Yellowstone Trail
A group of some 21 Huntley homeowners in the Yellowstone Trail subdivision met August 26 to decide how to address a litany of complaints they have against one Billings company, J & J Homes, which sold them their houses. The subdivision is comprised of homes on Lynette Lane and Lenny Lane, located along Yellowstone Trail […]
Committee Set to Examine Solutions to Local Crime
At every corner one can hear people in Yellowstone County claim that more jail space is needed to combat the rising crime rate. But many county officials are dubious that that would solve the problem. They point to other aspects of the judicial system that are creating bottlenecks that keep the jail full and allow […]