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Abby Huseth writes, "It feels fitting to be going solar on the summer solstice, as we celebrate the longest day of the year and all that this season of abundant sunlight brings."

Authorities have identified human remains that were found on May 18 in the Upper Rattlesnake area.

Missoula City Band Conductor Gary Gillette is readying his group for another season of summer concerts in the park (7:30 p.m. every Wednesday at Bonner Park). The opening gig on June 18 will salute the Big Band era. Check out the band’s full season offerings at missoulacityband.org.

The Missoula Police Department arrested 31-year-old fugitive Jesse Lewis, who was wanted for deliberate homicide in Kentucky, on Wednesday.

The Missoula PaddleHeads will open a 12-game homestand this week and are fresh off a six-game sweep of the Great Falls Voyagers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal featured the creation Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC) to give unemployed “single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America’s public lands, forests, and parks.”

The Missoula Police Department responded to Hellgate High School on Friday morning following a reported threat overheard by a student while on campus.

Missoula is known as the Garden City of Montana. How that came to be was explained in the Sunday edition of the Missoulian newspaper on May 30, 1909. “To its miles of residence streets is to be traced the origin of the title, which, after all, is the proudest that Missoula bears. Wide and clean are Missoula’s streets, a rule that holds good especially in its residence districts.”

From the shores of Lake Huron to the banks of the Blackfoot River, Ben Schneider's journey has produced songs that have endured long after the initial release.

The Flathead National Forest announced on Friday that it would issue a special use authorization for the operation of Holland Lake Lodge.