Michael Howell

Hayes Creek Road, located on the west side of the valley south of Hamilton in the Charlos Heights area, will remain open up to the Forest Service boundary where public […]

The October 24 Stevensville Town Council meeting was not live streamed due to technical difficulties, but an audio record of the meeting was made and is available on the town’s […]

Ravalli County Attorney Bill Fulbright recently found former Stevensville Town Council member and current candidate for council seat Bob Michalson’s ethics complaint against Mayor Brandon Dewey to be invalid. Michalson’s […]

Former Stevensville Town Clerk Audrey Tribbensee has filed suit in Ravalli County District Court alleging bullying, harassment and poor treatment to such an extent that the she had no choice […]

Stevensville Town Council member Dempsey Vick has filed an official complaint with the Commissioner of Political Practices against Mayor Brandon Dewey, claiming that Dewey has violated the law prohibiting a […]

Four scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton and several of their Italian colleagues from the Neurosciences Department, Biomedicine in Verona University, the Cellular Biology and Neurosciences Department of the […]

What the group of men say while sitting around drinking coffee at the Bitterroot Valley Elks Lodge in Hamilton first thing in the morning is for the most part unprintable. […]

At the Bitterroot Trout Unlimited banquet last week, two local fishermen and writers Bill Bean and Chuck Stranahan each received a Golden Trout Award for their decades of writing about […]

Stevensville School Nurse Connie Johnson was named the Montana School Nurse of the year for 2019-2020 by the Montana Association of School Nurses. The award was presented to Johnson at […]

Although the handwriting is on the wall, you might say, marking the coming shutdown of the Ravalli County Recycling Center with closing tentatively set for the end of the year, […]

Although many lives are lost every day from one sort of cancer or another, sometimes, with the right help at the right time, cancer can be beaten. Lori Meuchel is […]

People around the world are mobilizing, it seems, to press their governments and international corporations for action to address climate change with a growing sense of urgency. Concern also seems […]

The Bitterroot National Forest held the first in a series of public meetings on the Bitterroot Front Project last Thursday, October 10th at the Darby Community Clubhouse. According to forest […]

The Bitterroot Aquatic Center was established about 18 years ago when a $1.8 million bond and levy were passed for construction of the facility. In 2006, another levy was passed […]

At its last meeting in September, the Hamilton City Council approved increases to the monthly base rate charge and usage charge for both water and wastewater. Each will increase by […]

A few citizen scientist volunteers were out collecting data along Highway 93 in the Bitterroot last week documenting the number and kinds of animals that could be found killed on […]

The regular voter registration deadline passed on October 7 for the Municipal General Election. Eligible people can still vote, however, but will need to appear in person at the Election […]

  October is Colors of Cancer month in the Bitterroot and it began in earnest last Tuesday at the Colors of Cancer “Food Truck” Lunch held in the Emergency Department […]

Ravalli County and Ravalli County Deputy Sterling Maus are among three counties and several law enforcement personnel named in a federal lawsuit filed by Paul Jenkins and his children Kenneth […]

The Ravalli County Commissioners held a meeting recently to discuss opening a gate on Hayes Creek Road that landowners in the area had begun locking to exclude the general public […]