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The Missoula Fire Department extinguished a structure fire early Friday morning at a home on Burlington Avenue. Jeff Kroll, acting battalion chief, said crews arrived shortly after 8 a.m. and found heavy smoke pouring from the home, located at 447 Burlington.

Missoula police officers were involved in the fatal shooting of a suspect after responding to a domestic violence call at a home near Rose Park on Sunday morning.

Havre High School has been canceled Tuesday because of a threat found in the boys’ bathroom. Parents received text messages at 8 p.m. Monday notifying them school will be closed.

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is taking place in Missoula for the first time this Saturday, with about 376 participants and 35 teams already signed up. The Women Foundation hopes to reduce the number of breast cancer deaths by 50 percent in the U.S. by 2026.

Scheduled service to the Missoula 9-1-1 dispatch center resulted in a three-hour outage early Thursday morning, prompting officials to issue an emergency alert to notify residents of the problem.

Missoula County Search and Rescue crews on Friday recovered the body of David Hall, who went missing on the Clark Fork River earlier this month, the sheriff's department said.

Missoula County Search and Rescue crews on Sunday night ceased their search for a 70-year-old boater who went missing on the Clark Fork River the day before, citing high water and dangerous conditions.

The Missoula County Health Department is gearing up for the summer season, the Farmers Market in particular, where it will offer produce vouchers to families registered in the WIC program.

Dwight Yoakam will headline the eighth annual Red Ants Pants Music Festival this July, it was announced at a block party in White Sulphur Springs Saturday night. The popular festival, staged in a working cow pasture on the Jackson Ranch just outside of White Sulphur Springs, is scheduled for July 26-29 and will also feature  Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan, Shovels and Rope, the Steep Canyon Rangers, Junior Brown, Jim Lauderdale, Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band, the Secret Sisters and more.

A former Navy petty officer faces up to seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty this week to sharing a video of puppies being drowned in a river. He admitted to distributing at least one video to a person in Montana.