Anaconda News

ANACONDA - The mother of a Deer Lodge man who died in a hunting accident said her son slipped and fell while carrying his rifle and the gun discharged, shooting him in the back of the head.

ANACONDA - Officials say a 25-year-old Deer Lodge man was shot and killed in a weekend hunting accident at a campground southeast of Deer Lodge.

Veterans Day will be celebrated Wednesday with events planned throughout Southwest Montana.

A District Court jury in Anaconda, Montana has awarded a former "prison guard" $51k for emotional distress suffered during a riot in which it took assistance 90 minutes to arrive.

A District Court jury in Anaconda has awarded a former Montana State Prison guard $51,763 for emotional distress suffered during a 2006 prison riot.

An entomologist for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation says the forests near Missoula are showing signs of the tree-killing mountain pine beetle.

BUTTE - A 33-year-old Anaconda man who died from injuries he suffered in a one-vehicle rollover has been identified as Jason Green.

The wintry weather caused dozens of accidents and slide-offs from Butte to Bozeman on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The worst of the H1N1 flu outbreak appears to have passed at schools in Anaconda.

It won't be the last in the endless string of unintended consequences of electricity deregulation dating back more than a decade in this state, but it may be the beginning of the end for whatever's left of the Montana Power Co., or its later incarnation, Touch America.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. Up to 85 bighorn sheep could be shipped from Montana to Utah and Washington under a proposal endorsed by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission.

Authorities say a 32-year-old woman is dead after crashing her car into a tree near Montana City southeast of Helena.

HELENA - U.S. Sen. Jon tester is continuing public meetings on his proposal to both add more wilderness and require more logging of federal land with a meeting in northwestern Montana.

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ANACONDA - The Anaconda School District in southwest Montana is canceling classes on Friday because of the large number of students sick with the flu.

Dozens of students were absent from school in Anaconda on Wednesday due to a variety of illnesses, according to the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Health Department.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Final trainload of contaminated sediment pulled from Montana site For nearly two years, trainloads of contaminated sediment have been hauled from the Superfund site at the former Milltown Dam site in Montana, and on Thursday, the last bit of soil was loaded on a train, headed for disposal at a ...

Strong winds increased fire activity in Montana over the weekend, but the National Weather Service said a cold front expected Tuesday afternoon could bring rain and even snow to higher elevations.

MISSOULA - The Montana Highway Patrol says two people were killed in highway crashes over the weekend.

A security contract has been awarded to Covenant Aviation Security of Anaconda and business partner Trinity by the Transportation Security Administration.