Community Officials Mull Community Needs, Demands on Property Taxpayers
A meeting of City, County and School District officials, as well as many other community leaders, last Wednesday, was dominated by discussions of the future needs of the community and competing demands upon taxpayers, as the County pursues a levy and bond to expand the jail and School District 7 projects a mill levy request […]
County Responds to City’s Offer On Temporary Holding Facility
In advancing the agreement between the city and the county in the building of a short-term holding facility (STHF), the County Commissioners responded this week to the Billings City Council’s offer in February to contribute a total of $2 million to the cost. The temporary holding facility will be built to hold inmates for only […]
BPD Officer injured on duty by teenage driver fleeing traffic stop
Billings Police Department officers located and stopped a vehicle, in the area of Bernard, south of Monad on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 1:12am. The vehicle had fled from officers multiple times earlier that evening.
Fatal car incident becomes homicide investigation
Dec. 31, 2019 at about 7:30 pm, the Billings Police Department Investigations Division became involved in what was initially reported as a fatal car accident west of Billings on Molt road. The accident on Molt road was reported earlier in the day on Dec. 31, 2019.
November 20 shooting leads to arrests, investigation ongoing
On November 21 shortly after 9am, Officers with the Billings Police Department attempted stopping a black SUV as part of follow up investigation associated with a recent shooting in the 900 block of South 29th on November 20. The SUV fled from Officers in the area of Hilltop and Main before finally crashing into a […]
Traffic stop ends in Police Shooting
An as of yet unidentified man was hospitalized Wednesday morning after being shot by police as they were attempting to stop his vehicle in Downtown Billings. A police officer saw a possibly stolen Ford F350 pickup potentially used in a theft pull into the parking lot of Albertsons on the corner of N. 27th St. […]
U.S. Attorney: Arrests, drug seizures show Project Safe Neighborhoods is working
Originally published in the 10/19/18 print edition of Yellowstone County News. BILLINGS — In the past six months, law enforcement officers have charged 105 persons in federal and state court, seized 160 pounds of methamphetamine and confiscated 52 firearms from the Yellowstone County community as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal program to […]
Robber shoots gun, leaves without cash
BILLINGS HEIGHTS — The Billings Police Department is investigating an early morning robbery on Monday at the Blue Basket convenience store at 2347 Main St. in the Heights. During the attempted robbery, the suspect fired at a clerk, destroying a cell phone, but the clerk was not injured. According to a press release from the […]