Up in the 406

The Defense Department is "confident" a balloon spotted this week over parts of Montana was a surveillance balloon from China.

According to a social media post, Chair 4 had to be stopped due to a mechanical issue at 9:40 a.m. and riders were evacuated by rope.

While the City of Missoula requires property owners to shovel their sidewalks after a snowfall, the ordinance doesn't require residents to make false complaints against neighbors.

Students on the Flathead Indian Reservation got a firsthand look at the view thanks to Nicole Mann — NASA's first Indigenous woman in space and the spacecraft commander for NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the space station.

The Lady Griz have generated some great names in recent years. But we have to go back more than 100 years to find the rest of them.

Employees of Yellowstone County ratified a new contract on Friday, averting a possible strike the union membership had authorized but postponed in order to vote on a new contract proposal.

At the request of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American told hold the position, investigators found more than 500 bodies at just 19 of the schools, and said more were being discovered as the work continues.

The Bigfork School District has approved the purchase of a new electric school bus thanks to a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency.

“Cleaner streets and compulsory education” are to blame! The number of street urchins were getting “scarcer every year” and the president of the American Water Color Society, John George Brown, was very concerned that he couldn’t “find any more ragged boys to paint.”

USPS said that staffing shortages could likely be the reason behind mail delays.