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The Missoula Police Department continues its investigation into a series of death threats made to Mountain Line employees in the days following the mass shooting outside San Antonio, Texas, earlier this month.

The work week started out on the chilly side in Missoula on Monday with an icy fog and temperatures of 22 degrees. But by later today, Missoulians should see the sun and a daytime high of 46 degrees.

Roughly 97 percent of Montana prisoners will return to the community. While their crime is theirs to bear, how successfully they reintegrate into the community carries wider social costs and consequences, and community volunteers learned the challenges first-hand on Thursday.

Not only has Starbucks selected Soft Landing for inclusion in its "Upstanders" film series, the company also has chosen Missoula as one of four cities to screen the new season of films – the other three being New York City, Seattle and San Diego.

The superintendent of the Missoula Street Division plans to increase the night crew this year to plow the city's main arterials before morning traffic picks up, freeing the day shift to reach residential streets sooner than in past years.

Last Best News partners Ed Kemmick and David Crisp will be featured in this week’s “Home Ground” show on Yellowstone Public Radio. Hosted by Brian Kahn, “Home Ground” is a  weekly public affairs program that was launched in 1996 and is broadcast on radio stations throughout the Rocky Mountain West.

The U.S. Border Patrol said its agents arrested a 25-year-old man from Alberta, Canada, trying to enter the United States illegally this week while carrying “large amounts of U.S. currency" near the Sweetgrass, Montana, border crossing.

Bolstered by gifts from several local businesses, the United Way of Missoula County has raised more than $8,000 over the past week to assist residents impacted by wildfires in Lolo and Seeley Lake. The Missoula Family YMCA has also opened its facilities to fire evacuees.

The city is expected to divert $10,000 from a decades-old earmark to redesign an unfinished portion of Wyoming Street, a move that could see the odd blend of old and new construction merge into a unified roadway.

On Monday, as part of Community Health Center Week, Partnership Health Center launched a weeklong celebration to thank its patients and staff, and to unite the city services that work hand-in-hand to improve community health.