The explanation for Ekalaka's creation? “Hell, any place in Montana is a good place for a saloon.”
Gilt Edge, Maiden and Kendall are three long abandoned mining camps about a two hour drive from Billings. What they lack in residents, they make up for in echoes and impressions.
The carnival put on by the Billings Public Schools Education Foundation is the biggest fundraiser for K-12 schools in the Billings area and has raised over 2.7 million dollars since its inception.
The event coincides with the release of a new book based on the battle between the Crow and a coalition of warring tribes that nearly eradicated them.
Billings resident Dave Wanzenried has taken it upon himself to restore and upgrade a memorial to the 1877 Canyon Creek Battle north of Laurel.
Historic Yellowstone Park buses on display in Red Lodge. Rides offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
Born in Culbertson, Thomsen, 102, gravitated towards flying at a young age. He earned his pilot license from flight school in Great Falls and decided to enlist into the Navy the same year.
On what would end up being his final mission, the U.S. Air Force pilot found himself in the air with multiple Nazi fighter planes amidst the Battle of the Bulge before getting shot down, captured and taken to a nearby prison hospital.
A Civil War-era General Service cuff button was discovered by a group of visitors in the park.
Ekalaka's Carter County Museum is one of the state's premier county museums, a place where eons of history come together to tell the story of a landscape across time.
It’s impossible to go anywhere in Montana without running into history. Micheal Ober's book catalogs 50 of those spots on the National Register of Historic Places.
"Teddy Blue Crossing the Musselshell" is on the front lawn of the Musselshell County Courthouse, a reminder of Roundup's cowtown past.
Mark Johnson's new book about the history of the Chinese experience in Montana is out now, and he'll be discussing it at the Billings Public Library on Friday at 6 p.m.
James T. Webb Memorial fountain
Read through the obituaries published today in Billings Gazette.
Houston Independent School District area superintendent Dr. Erwin Garcia and former Woodland Park Schools superintendent Dr. Mathew Neal both made their cases via web calls to be the one to succeed School District 2 superintendent Greg Upham following the conclusion of this schoolyear.
SAC Director Zach Terakedis on Monday asks Billings City Council for support during county commission meeting.
After hearing comments from more than half a dozen local leaders, the three commissioners voted unanimously to amend the county’s agreement with Substance Abuse Connect instead of axing it.
Fisheries mavens for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks continued Tuesday to tag trout in Silver Bow Creek to try to understand why densities of trout have been declining. Students observed.
Democrats on a Senate committee at one point walked out of the hearing.
The first-ever Montana State Archery Tournament was held Tuesday at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds.
"I think Montana has an opportunity here to be a leader," Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told the committee.
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County prosecutors charged Jefferson on Friday following an investigation by Montana Division of Criminal Investigation and FBI agents.
Morgan, 39, pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual abuse of children. County prosecutors alleged he tried enticing two people he thought were underage girls into meeting for sex.
Terrell Lee Spottedwolf Sr., 30, has been charged with one count of deliberate homicide, with county prosecutors alleging he killed Susan LaForge last month.
Salimon Frank Nava Sr., a 25-year-old from Billings, died of a single gunshot wound to the head, Yellowstone County Deputy Coroner Rich Hoffman told the Gazette on Wednesday.
Democrats on a Senate committee at one point walked out of the hearing.
"I think Montana has an opportunity here to be a leader," Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told the committee.
Montana lawmakers are grappling with a fresh question: Have programs advertising the Last Best Place to the rest of the country worked too well?
A flurry of legislation is moving through the Montana Legislature in advance of a looming procedural deadline.