For a good cause, Clearwater Credit Union and Imagine Nation Brewing team up today at 5 p.m. to drink A Thirst for Home Hazy IPA. The fundraiser benefits the Missoula Home Coalition, which gets 100 percent of the proceeds. Local nonprofits and individuals comprise the Missoula Home Coalition, which works to provide solutions for Missoulians struggling to find affordable … [Read more...] about Drink up tonight: Missoula Home Coalition fundraiser

(CN) The rundown cafe in the middle of modest Main Street didn’t look like a county courthouse, but Google Maps insisted, and the picture on my phone matched. But that copper dome in the distance appeared like the top of many grand old courthouses. Ignoring the insistent navigator, I continued down the street. An hour and a half east of Billings and two hours from the … [Read more...] about Courthouse drama and floods in a rural Montana town

(KPAX) A Missoula police officer was involved in a shooting incident Monday afternoon, but specifics on what exactly happened have not been released. In a press release sent to the media late Monday night, Sergeant Travis Welsh says at approximately 4:40 p.m., Missoula police officers responded to a report of suspicious activity in a dirt lot at the intersection of North 2nd … [Read more...] about Missoula police involved in Labor Day shooting

(KPAX) The U.S. Forest Service confirms with KPAX News one of the nine killed in Sunday morning’s mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, was a former tour guide at the Smokejumper Visitor Center in Missoula. According to USFS Northern Regional press officer Dan Hottle, Megan Betts received the six-week internship through the Student Conservation Association. She was in Montana from … [Read more...] about Mass shooting victim was intern, tour guide at Missoula Smokejumper Center

(KPAX) There's encouraging news to report on the two surviving victims of a March crime spree in Missoula where two people died and a Montana Highway Patrol trooper was shot in the head. Below is a statement from both families released Wednesday afternoon on behalf of the Montana Department of Justice: Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer continues to make progress … [Read more...] about Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Palmer undergoes surgery, remains nonverbal