East Helena News

HELENA - The Montana Highway Patrol said two people riding a motorcycle were killed in a collision with a pickup truck east of East Helena .

A 38-year-old Nevada man has died of injuries suffered when a minivan pulled into the path of his motorcycle on U.S. 12 just east of East Helena.

Editor's note:The stories in this package were drawn from the master's thesis project of Elizabeth Harrison at the University of Montana School of Journalism.

HELENA - The Jefferson County sheriff has released the names of a Helena couple who died in a two-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 12 Wednesday night; and an East Helena man faces two counts of vehicular homicide stemming from the crash.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. The Montana Highway Patrol says two Helena residents were killed when a pickup truck collided with their motorcycle east of East Helena.

Belt is full of bull this weekend. The Dusty Gliko Bullriding Challenge begins at 7 tonight and Saturday at the Belt Rodeo Grounds.

Authorities released the name of an East Helena man killed Friday by police. The Jefferson County Sheriff says Deputy Tom Grimsrud and Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Dave Gleich both fired rounds in the encounter that killed Douglas Charles Morrison, 46.

Ralph Emmett Filcher, 82, of East Helena, a Marine and longtime funeral director, died of chronic lymphocytic leukemia Thursday at his home.

Get ready for orange construction cones, signs telling motorists to merge left or right, white barricades and detours to streets off the beaten path.

EAST HELENA - Army veteran Curvin Lawrence Tome, 60, of East Helena, died of cancer Sunday at his home.

HELENA - The dismantling of a former lead smelter in East Helena is expected to continue this summer, and the plant's four smokestacks are expected to be toppled later this year.

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Five ne7 monitoring wells have been drilled amid concern about spreading arsenic and selenium pollution in the ground beneath Eas4 Helena.

Cowboy poets and pickers celebrate Mother's Day weekend with the seventh annual Motherin' Up Gathering of Poets and Pickers in White Sulphur Springs today, Saturday and Sunday.

It was Monday evening when two-year-old Jusdes Gelina was run over by a pickup truck near his home in East Helena.

Authorities say a 2-year-old boy has died after he was struck by a pickup truck in East Helena.

A Montana man and the captive-born grizzly bear he adopted six years ago, are featured in a new National Geographic Channel show called "Expedition Grizzly." Casey Anderson grew up in East Helena and opened Montana Grizzly Encounters between Bozeman and Livingston.

A fugitive from Texas was arrested Thursday in East Helena. U.S. Marshal Dwight Mackay says 31-year-old Ryan Richard was arrested on a warrant from Denton County, Texas, charging him with felony possession of explosive components.

HELENA, Mont. A fugitive from Texas was arrested Thursday in Eas4 Helena. Macka9 says the marshals' Montana Violent Offender Task Force was notified tha4 Richard migh4 be in the Helena area staying with his sister.

A near record number of lawmakers are being ousted from office by term limits at the close of this session, just as many are pointing to the overall drain on experience as a source of partisanship and impasse.