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    July 2, 2010

    BILLINGS- Hot-weather lovers take note: some COOLER changes are on the way. Sunny skies to start the day and another sizzler is expected with daytime highs soaring to the lower... more »

Arizona governor considers changing immigration law

Posted 5 hours 40 minutes ago by PAUL DAVENPORT and JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press Writers

Arizona governor considers changing immigration law

PHOENIX (AP) - The fight over Arizona's immigration law showed no signs of letting up Friday as the federal judge who blunted its force faced threats and the Republican governor who signed it consi… Click to Read More

California wildfire jumps aqueduct, approaches homes

Posted 5 hours 44 minutes ago by JACOB ADELMAN Associated Press Writer

California wildfire jumps aqueduct, approaches homes

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) - A huge wildfire in the high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles jumped an aqueduct on Friday, rushing toward hundreds of houses as firefighters also tried to keep flames … Click to Read More

ZooMontana new home for cubs involved in attack near Cooke City

Posted 6 hours 2 minutes ago by David Jay

ZooMontana new home for cubs involved in attack near Cooke City

BILLINGS - Three cubs involved in an attack that killed a Michagan man at a campground near Cooke City, will be coming to Billings
ZooMontana found out late Friday afternoon that it would be… Click to Read More

Grizzly bear euthanized after triple mauling, cubs coming to Billings

Posted 8 hours 26 minutes ago by Jon Stepanek - Q2 News

Grizzly bear euthanized after triple mauling, cubs coming to Billings

FIRST REPORT: BILLINGS, MT - Wildlife officials in Montana have euthanized a grizzly bear after they determined it was responsible for a triple mauling at campground just outside Y… Click to Read More

Browning man dies in Glacier National Park after altercation

Posted 13 hours 9 minutes ago by KRTV News Staff/Glacier National Park Press Release

Browning man dies in Glacier National Park after altercation

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK - Glacier National Park officials report that Clinton Croff, a 30-year-old Browning man, died Thursday in the park's Two Medicine Valley.

Croff was reportedly inv… Click to Read More

Water contamination found at Hebgen Lake area resort

Posted 13 hours 15 minutes ago by John Sherer - Montana's News Station

Water contamination found at Hebgen Lake area resort

BOZEMAN - Public health officials say they are investigating an outbreak of illnesses that they believe is tied to contaminated water from a resort near Hebgen Lake.

The Gallatin County … Click to Read More

Bozeman man, who survived 2 grizzly maulings, passes away

Posted 13 hours 25 minutes ago by Adam Bell - Montana's News Station

Bozeman man, who survived 2 grizzly maulings, passes away

BOZEMAN - One local man, who had been mauled not once but twice by grizzly bears and lived to tell the tale, passed away last week.

According to the Associated Press, 60-year-old Jim Cole, … Click to Read More

911 calls released in deadly bear attack Play Video

Posted 17 hours 41 minutes ago

911 calls released in deadly bear attack

COOKE CITY, MT - Wildlife officials captured a mother grizzly and two of her three cubs after one person died and two others were when the bear went on a late-night rampage through a campground nea… Click to Read More

UPDATE: 4th bear caught after deadly MT campground attack Play Video

Posted 19 hours 1 minute ago

UPDATE:  4th bear caught after deadly MT campground attack

UPDATE: COOKE CITY, MT - The last grizzly bear believed involved in the fatal mauling of a Michigan man at a campground near Yellowstone National Park has been captured, and Montana wildlife offici… Click to Read More

UPDATE: DNA testing begins on bears suspected in deadly Cooke City attack Play Video

Posted 19 hours 3 minutes ago by Jeff Womack

UPDATE: DNA testing begins on bears suspected in deadly Cooke City attack

COOKE CITY, MT - State wildlife officials are now testing the DNA of a captured grizzly bear to confirm if it was the animal that attacked the three campers at the Soda Butte campground. The sow, e… Click to Read More

Judge: US Fish & Wildlife Servce plan excluded possible lynx habitat

Posted 1 day 4 hours ago

Judge: US Fish & Wildlife Servce plan excluded possible lynx habitat

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is arbitrarily excluding "critical habitat" that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx, which were li… Click to Read More

Panel hits Rangel with 13 ethics charges

Posted 1 day 5 hours ago by LARRY MARGASAK and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writers

Panel hits Rangel with 13 ethics charges

WASHINGTON (AP) - House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday, throwing a cloud over his four-decade political ca… Click to Read More

False alarm: Google search still working in China

Posted 1 day 5 hours ago by MIHCAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer

False alarm: Google search still working in China

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the… Click to Read More

New brush fires erupt in rural Los Angeles County

Posted 1 day 5 hours ago

New brush fires erupt in rural Los Angeles County

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - New brush fires swept over more than 3 square miles and prompted evacuations in rural Los Angeles County hills Thursday, while good weather to the north helped firefigh… Click to Read More

Republicans block small business lending bill

Posted 1 day 5 hours ago

Republicans block small business lending bill

WASHINGTON - After failing to break a Republican filibuster over a bill that would increase lending for small businesses, Senate Democrats are turning their sights elsewhere.
Majority Leader … Click to Read More

Canada to close border crossing, unknown effect on US port

Posted 1 day 9 hours ago by David Jay

Canada to close border crossing, unknown effect on US port

WHITETAIL, Mont. - The Canadian government will close one of its offices at a border crossing and at this time it will not affect the Montana side of the border.
The port of entry is across f… Click to Read More

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