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Warming river water is prompting more hoot-owl fishing restrictions and one complete closure in southwest Montana this week. The Madison River, from the Madison Dam at Ennis Reservoir to the footbridge at the NorthWestern Energy powerhouse, is closed to fishing at all hours beginning Wednesday, July 15. The closure is in response to warm outflows from Ennis Reservoir that are preventing nighttime cooling in that section of the river. Hoot-owl restrictions, which prohibit fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight each day, also take effect on July 15 at 2...
SUNDAY, JULY 12 06:24:12 Traffic Stop 06:33:22 Animal: Hwy 55 07:54:47 Medical: Quarter Horse Ln 10:01:58 Suspicious: Milligan Canyon Rd 11:05:47 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 12:58:07 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 13:09:21 Citizen Assist: Uff Da Rd 13:38:30 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 14:13:36 Stranded Motorist: I-90 14:31:08 Motorist Assist: I-90 14:38:28 Motorist Assist: I-90 14:38:34 911 E LEGION ST 14:54:09 Traffic Stop: I-90 15:11:57 Reckless Driver: I-90 15:30:43 Traffic Stop: I-90 15:37:51 Suspicious: I-90...
The Montana Department of Corrections intends to relocate women currently incarcerated at Boulder’s Riverside prison, which holds about 50 of the state’s 370 female prisoners, to Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City, according to agency spokesperson Carolynn Stocker. A press release shared by Stocker on Thursday, July 9th, announced that the agency planned “to explore options for the use of the 144-bed Pine Hills Correctional Facility in Miles City to potentially house adult females.” Later, in response to questions about the Montana...
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) is proposing updates to recreation fees for state parks, fishing access sites, wildlife management areas, wildlife habitat protection areas, and other FWP-managed lands. The proposal is now open for public comment, and we encourage everyone who enjoys recreating on Montana’s state-managed public lands to learn more and share their feedback. Why are fees being updated? Montana’s current recreation fee structure has remained largely unchanged since 2014. During that time, visitation has continued to climb whi...
SUNDAY, JULY 5 00:11:34 Traffic Stop: E First St 00:25:45 Fireworks: Yellowstone Trl 00:56:05 Fireworks: W Olive St 01:07:03 Fireworks: Corbett Lp 02:57:50 Suspicious Vehicle: I-90 13:01:37 Traffic Stop 14:11:40 Traffic Hazard: N Division St 15:05:20 Reckless Driver: I-90 15:12:17 Stranded Motorist: I-90 16:03:15 Traffic Hazard: Bluebird Ln 16:08:19 Motorist Assist: Pipestone Rd 16:26:02 Reckless Driver 17:11:28 Traffic Hazard 17:50:55 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 18:23:47 Welfare Check: S Division...
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 07:02:43 911 10:23:42 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 10:25:38 Suspicious: W Second St 10:27:00 Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 11:17:01 Reckless Driver: I-90 11:20:22 Traffic Stop: I-90 12:48:14 Duplicate Call: I-90 13:30:31 Vehicle Accident (Injury): I-90 14:04:51 Traffic Hazard: N Whitehall St 15:41:45 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 15:46:17 Found Property: W Legion St 15:49:42 Medical: Hwy 55 15:58:07 Traffic Stop: E Legion St 18:14:57 Animal MONDAY, JUNE 29 06:15:58 Vehicle Accident...
As we mark our nation’s 250 th anniversary, it’s worth celebrating what we the people have in common. What we literally have in common – own in common – are our public lands, our national parks and forests. In the West especially, glance at the photo library on your phone and it will probably look a lot like the person’s next to you in the coffee shop. Your parents’ and grandparents’ faded photo family albums probably have similar pictures too. That’s because our public lands shape us. They and hold our uniquely American stories. Memori...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) discussed the five candidates from last week’s Meet & Greet and drafted a list of guest speakers we would like to hear from in the fall. We aim to be as informed as possible as we cast our ballots in November. More money has been paid to stop renewable energy projects mid-production, this time $734M in addition to the $2B that has already been spent in this manner. The Trump administration has also allowed only one permit (public and private land) for renewable energy projects since taking office. This tone-deaf a...
The Montana-based group promoting a ballot initiative to make campaign finance more transparent obscures its own financial backers through a murky fundraising structure, according to publicly available campaign finance filings reviewed by Montana Free Press. The Transparent Election Initiative is a nonprofit organization pushing to “stop corporate and dark money cold” in elections. The group is currently aiming to pass a citizen’s initiative — known as The Montana Plan, or I-194 — that would prohibit political spending by “artifici...
SUNDAY, JUNE 21 00:19:24 Traffic Stop: I-90 01:00:13 Citizen Assist 01:51:52 Reckless Driver: I-90 06:49:33 Medical: Stanley St 11:12:37 Traffic Hazard 11:30:27 Medical: Coyote Trl 15:36:34 Traffic Hazard 17:08:22 Criminal Mischief: W Legion St 19:17:01 Trespass: E Legion St 20:02:08 Traffic Stop: N Whitehall St 20:21:07 Traffic Stop: W Legion St MONDAY, JUNE 22 08:03:46 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 08:21:25 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 08:33:11 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 08:50:59 Citizen Assist: N Division St 09:...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) attended one of several candidate Meet & Greets in lieu of our regular weekly meeting, held at the historic Whitehall Star Theatre on Wednesday, June 17th. Five candidates spoke briefly, then fielded questions from the audience. The candidates in attendance were the three sheriff candidates: Tom Grimsrud (incumbent), Dave Kosola, and Tom Voigt; District 2 County Commissioner candidate Richard Rhodes, and one HD 75 candidate, Pat Sullivan. Richard Rhodes is running against Cory Kirsch (incumbent), who was not present,...
SUNDAY, JUNE 14 07:31:38 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 10:22:44 911: Hwy 2 W 14:27:24 Traffic Offense: I-90 15:26:19 Agency Assist: I-90 16:40:35 Dog at Large: Yellowstone Trl 17:04:25 Reckless Driver: I-90 17:05:48 Citizen Contact: W Legion St 17:31:22 Welfare Check: Hwy 2 E 17:47:12 Wildlife 19:20:22 Fire/Smoke Report: Cottonwood Rd 22:42:08 Vehicle Accident (Non-Injury): Hwy 2 W 22:46:31 911: Hwy 2 W MONDAY, JUNE 15 00:24:09 Agency Assist: Rolu Rd 01:23:43 Citizen Contact: W Legion St 09:42:09 Agency...
A 2026 Election Candidate Meet & Greet will be held at the Star Theatre (25 W Legion) in the upstairs Great Room on Wednesday, June 17th at 6:30 PM. This meet & greet is not a candidate forum, but an opportunity to meet the candidates personally, interact, and ask your questions in a public but personal setting. Light refreshments will be provided. Please enter through the Star Theatre’s main doors, then go up the stairs immediately to the right of the ticket booth. This event has been organized by DeDe Rhodes. The following candidates have bee...
The Transparent Election Initiative announced Tuesday that The Montana Plan, Initiative 194, is set to qualify for the November ballot after an all-volunteer campaign collected nearly 50,000 signatures from voters in all 56 Montana counties in just 13 weeks — far surpassing Montana’s 30,121-signature statewide qualification threshold. To qualify for the ballot, I-194 must receive 30,121 verified signatures statewide and meet Montana’s geographic distribution requirement by collecting signatures equal to at least 5% of the vote cast for gover...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) once again rolled its eyes as hand-breaking, cracked-wing Senator Sheehy referred to our group as a "Communist Insurgent Operation," while his faction continues to allow Putin and the Russians to bomb Ukraine, support Iran, and interfere in US elections. The primary action item of the week is to make phone calls to your Congressmen on the Major Richard Star Act Discharge Petition, urging them to force action. All four Montana delegates have supported the now-stalled...
Conservation groups have filed at least three separate appeals seeking to halt the Trump administration's decision to evict more than 900 bison from large swaths of federal land in central Montana. The administration's decision in early May to rescind American Prairie's bison grazing permits marked a victory for ranching groups who see the iconic native mammal as a threat to their livestock operations and way of life. Among those who advocated to remove the bison was the Montana Stockgrowers...
SUNDAY, JUNE 7 10:11:54 Reckless Driver: I-90 10:54:40 Reckless Drive: I-90 11:03:20 Reckless Driver: I-90 11:29:46 Suicide Threats: W First St 19:44:33 Hit & Run: Jewett Ln 22:10:27 Welfare Check: East St MONDAY, JUNE 8 04:56:41 Medical: Corbett Loop 06:27:51 Citizen Assist: N Main St 08:20:26 Suspicious: E Legion St 08:46:39 Citizen Assist: Holdsworth Rd 13:33:52 Traffic Stop: Pipestone Rd 15:03:36 Traffic Stop: I-90 15:39:52 Traffic Stop: I-90 16:01:18 Citizen Assist: W Legion St 16:54:19...
A 2026 Election Candidate Meet & Greet will be held at the Star Theatre (25 W Legion) in the upstairs Great Room on Wednesday, June 17th at 6:30 PM. This meet & greet is not a candidate forum, but an opportunity to meet the candidates personally, interact, and ask your questions in a public but personal setting. Light refreshments will be provided. Please enter through the Star Theatre's main doors, then go up the stairs immediately to the right of the ticket booth. This event has been...
M-44s are spring-loaded devices stuck in the ground and scented with decomposed animal tissue. They blast cyanide into the mouth of any creature that bites and pulls them. They were introduced in 1967, to replace gunpowder-driven Coyote Getters. M-44s are designed to kill coyotes, foxes and feral dogs that sometimes prey on sheep and newborn cattle. They also kill at least 150 nontarget species. This April 15, the Trump administration lifted former President Biden’s M-44 ban on the Bureau of Land Management’s 245 million acres, and once aga...
SUNDAY, MAY 31 06:46:04 Traffic Stop: I-90 07:34:25 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 08:30:28 Found Property: Forcella Rd 08:48:00 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 09:06:39 Traffic Stop: Hwy 55 14:06:52 Trespass: Cold Springs Rd 16:46:44 Civil: Prospector Loop 17:35:40 911 18:40:11 Custodial Interference: N Whitehall St 19:54:24 Gas Leak/Odor: Capp Ln 21:15:55 Transport (Prisoner or Other) 21:47:33 Suicide Threats 21:57:21 Suicide Threats: Prairie Dog Ln MONDAY, JUNE 1 01:36:17 Traffic Hazard: I-90 09:56:03 Struc...
Whitehall Indivisible (WI) will continue to learn about residential solar installations at the June 3rd meeting at 6 PM in the Whitehall School Library. Backup power, net metering, off-grid, or partial supply are all options, with the latest technology and lower costs facilitating the process. WI continues to gather signatures in SW Montana for the Transparent Election Initiative. If you would like to sign, go to montanaplan.org and click “I want to sign.” The deadline for signatures is June 19th. In local data center news, Sabey has off...
Many Montanans are increasingly struggling to afford healthcare, fuel and groceries, according to a Montana Free Press-Eagleton poll of registered voters conducted in late April and early May. Jeffrey Michael, director of the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, explained that inflation is at the top of people's minds as prices increase and the cost of living remains high. The U.S. consumer price index jumped 3.8% last month from April 2025. "Housing continues to be...
SUNDAY, MAY 24 00:50:52 Traffic Stop: I-90 05:00:29 Medical: Hwy 359 06:43:35 Animal: Hwy 69 08:35:00 Traffic Stop: I-90 08:58:46 Traffic Stop: I-90 11:25:47 Citizen Assist: Kelly Rd 13:02:39 Reckless Driver: I-90 13:11:09 Citizen Assist: Hwy 2 W 13:24:58 Suspicious: Whitetail Rd 14:01:15 Parking: Yellowstone Trl 15:40:30 Traffic Stop: Commercial Way 16:05:37 Traffic Stop: W Legion St 16:17:38 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 16:25:23 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 16:33:05 Citizen Contact 16:41:13 Extra Patrol:...
Gov. Greg Gianforte announced on Tuesday, May 19 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had approved his request to prohibit people from purchasing soft drinks, junk food and candy with SNAP, the food assistance program funded by the federal government. The state’s March waiver requesting the restrictions, circulated by Gianforte’s office Tuesday and signed by Department of Public Health and Human Services director Charlie Brereton, outlines the state’s goal to assess the impact of limiting “nutrient-poor food items on SNAP households in Mont...
SUNDAY, MAY 17 06:51:16 Traffic Stop: Pipestone Rd 08:20:44 Traffic Stop: I-90 08:32:12 Traffic Stop: E Legion St 08:52:12 Fire-Structure: Cedar Crest Rd 09:11:04 Traffic Stop 09:34:42 Animal 10:15:59 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 10:32:30 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 10:47:36 Fraud: Rustler Rd 10:50:36 Traffic Stop: Hwy 359 12:50:20 Civil Standby: Felswald Rd 13:46:42 Traffic Stop: Lower Rader Creek 13:52:20 Citizen Assist 14:08:38 Animal: Hot Springs Rd 14:13:52 Traffic Stop: Hot Springs Rd 14:57:59 Traffic...
