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The first-round game will be broadcast to millions of television sets nationwide on ESPN2. It is the only first round game that will be broadcast on national TV.

The City of Missoula will consider spending funds from an open space bond passed by voters 16 years ago to help conserve a working ranch, along with a rare valley wetland that lies on the property.

Residents in a growing Northside neighborhood will gain a new park under an agreement approved Monday night to allocate funding from the Open Space Bond to acquire the property.

Consider this response from a Bitterroot Valley editor to the 1894 presidential election: “I look upon the result of the election as a forerunner of Republican success in the future. I regard it as an endorsement by the people both of the declared policy of the Republican Party and in its ability to do some thing in the line of its policy when in power."

Last week, blues singer-songwriter ZZ Ward brought her original songs to the stage singing with her powerful but unique voice that melds the blues with many other styles, including hip hop, R&B and rock.

The Montana Grizzlies overcame a first half shut-out and a second-half power outage at Washington-Grizzly Stadium to come away with a 28-17 win over Portland State.

FWP said it believed the fifth wolf was “unknowingly wounded” when the four other wolves – two females and two males – were killed on the morning of Oct. 25.

If you’ve been in Missoula for a very long time, you’ll may remember the store on North Higgins, next to Woolworth’s, before it went out of business in the 1950s. Back in 1912, the Barnhill brothers, Garnett and Hyatt, bought Joe Fitzgerald’s menswear store, closed briefly for remodeling, then opened “Barney’s” for business at 222 North Higgins on August 1 with “new stock.”

Polls in Montana closed at 8 p.m. and the Associated Press immediately called the Montana governor’s race for Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Gianforte.

The No. 7 Montana Grizzlies return home for the first time in nearly a month on Saturday, and they’re coming back with a bang as UM enters the business end of the season against No. 4 UC Davis in the biggest game on this year’s schedule to date.