Ravalli County

Missoula County this week joined Ravalli County in asking the U.S. Forest Service to require a deeper environmental review on the proposed Sheep Creek Mine near Darby.

In the class action case, plaintiffs allege a pretrial supervision program run by the Sheriff’s Office in Ravalli County is charging “outrageous” fees to people least able to pay them, and it is doing so without due process.

“In no other section of Montana can there be found happier, healthier, more helpful or lovelier girls than in Ravalli County. Like all other products of the Bitter Root Valley, they are beyond compare!” The editor of the Ravalli Republican newspaper in Stevensville was on a roll, praising everything in sight, as the Western Montana Fruit Growers Association opened its first annual fall exhibit of fruits and vegetables.

For more than 100 years, the Rocky Mountain Labs have conducted lifesaving research into deadly diseases, including COVID-19, SARS-1, MERS, Lyme disease and Ebola. As I wrote in 2020, the Bio-safety Level 4 Labs have a colorful and controversial history, dating back more than a century to the initial reason for their existence: Black Measles, known today as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.