Ekalaka News

BILLINGS - Ranchers in southeastern Montana lost thousands of cattle and sheep as back-to-back-to-back snowstorms dumped up to 6 feet of snow on the area between March 23 and April 3. Mike Riley, Farm Service Agency executive director for Powder River County, said as of Thursday 152 producers had reported the loss of 1,759 calves and cows and 501 ...

TROY - A 21-year-old Troy man died of head injuries suffered in a sport utility vehicle crash in the northwestern Montana town.

The state Department of Transportation has closed a section of Secondary Highway 323 south of Ekalaka due to flooding.

MISSOULA - A seventh grader from Anaconda has won the Treasure State Spelling Bee for a second year in a row.

The Montana Army National Guard dispatched two helicopters Tuesday to help locate motorists stranded by a snowstorm in the southeastern part of the state.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS THAT THE BEST CHANCE OF ENCOUNTERING FREEZING RAIN WILL BE OVER THE LOWER RIVER VALLEYS FROM FORSYTH EAST TO BAKER AND EKALAKA.

Another arctic front pushed into Montana on Friday, dropping temperatures across the state below zero and leaving many areas blanketed in several inches of snow.

THERE'S A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, BUT THE BILLINGS REGION WILL STILL HAVE TO FACE A FEW MORE DAYS OF BITTER COLD.