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According to Montana State Highway Patrol Trooper Heaney, who responded to the incident, a school bus crashed on the afternoon of Thursday, February 20 with a driver and two students […]

Stevensville Public Schools is hosting a public meeting on Tuesday, March 3 to share construction plans and timelines for the elementary and high school construction and renovations scheduled to begin […]

Ann Bethea, owner of Florence Ace and Eastside Ace hardware stores, in Florence and Stevensville, respectively, was recently named the 2019 Business Person of the Year by the Bitterroot Valley […]

Friends of the Bitterroot, a local non-profit conservation organization, has asked a federal judge to put a hold on and, ultimately, declare unlawful the implementation of the Darby Lumber Lands […]

Owner and operator of the Burnt Fork Market in Stevensville, Jimmy Edwards, is not an office type of guy. He’s got one, back in the warehouse section of the sprawling […]

Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners closed out the books on a Big Sky Trust Fund business expansion grant, signed a contract for implementing another recently awarded grant, and approved […]

 The Corvallis School Board of Trustees met on February 12 and chose six finalists to interview for the position of Superintendent. The public, students, and staff are invited to meet […]

For the fourth year in a row now Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital has been designated a state certified trauma receiving hospital. As part of maintaining that designation, the hospital is […]

By Rick Laible Ionic Masonic Lodge #38 hosted the third annual First Responder Awards Dinner on February 4 to honor deserving individuals within our community who have been identified by […]

According to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists, the experimental antiviral remdesivir successfully prevented disease in rhesus macaques infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Remdesivir […]

Are the kids in your life experiencing a little cabin fever? This Saturday, February 15, they have a chance to get out and explore opportunities for camps and workshops that […]

Colleen McCarthy, a Partnership Specialist for the U.S. Census Bureau, visited with the Ravalli County Commissioners last week, drumming up support for the upcoming 2020 U.S. Census. Collection of census […]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus (named “2019-nCoV”) that was first detected in Wuhan […]

The Montana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the appeal of former Florence doctor Chris Christensen. The 72-year-old former physician was charged in 2015 and, following a long jury […]

The ninth annual Bitterroot Cowboy Ball is coming right up on Saturday night! This event is sponsored by the Rockin’ RC Rodeo Committee of the Ravalli County Fair. The doors […]

Editor’s Note: Following is Nancy Ballance’s statement of candidacy in her own words. I am formally announcing that I am running for Senate District 44, the seat occupied for the […]

The Bitterroot Public Library will once again partner with Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in 2020 to offer community tours of RML, but with a new twist: quarterly evening tours will […]

Bitterrooters got a chance recently to hear the latest update from one of the leading authors of the 2017 Montana Climate Assessment, not only about how climate change is affecting […]

Some federal, state and local government officials got together with some local fishing outfitters and others in the Bitterroot last week to discuss the issue of removing woody debris from […]