Fort Peck News

BILLINGS - Indian tribes across Montana are working to improve the tracking of sex offenders on reservations.

The Army Corps of Engineers is more than doubling water releases from Lake Oahe this month as the demand for hydropower-generated electricity increases with the start of the winter heating season.

A panel of state lawmakers discussed water rights issues at a packed Belgrade Senior Center Wednesday night.

Twenty-five galleries and businesses host exhibits of local and regional artists and their new work in Fridaya s Artwalk, which coincides with the Christmas Stroll downtown.

I wanted to write a blog entry about this subject several months ago but local and current events around Billings and Montana and other projects have been keeping me busy.

Less than a week before I left Billings, Montana in October 2002 I met a Scotlander visitng in the USA and Montana and he was nice enough to answer a few of my questions about Alba and then I asked him if he'd seen any UFOs in his travels.

Several things were extraordinary about the huge drug bust on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation this week.

A Poplar man sentenced to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole for a 1979 murder will get another hearing in his effort to prove he is innocent.

Authorities say 32 suspects, including the mayor of Brockton, will remain in jail on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation over Thanksgiving as they await arraignment on charges of trafficking prescription drugs.

Law enforcement officers from several agencies arrested three dozen people in a drug bust on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

A drug bust of a different kind in Roosevelt County, Montana. Authorities say there`s a growing number of people selling not street drugs, but prescription drugs.

A Poplar man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bank fraud. David Michael Rosebud Mathison, 33, is set to be sentenced Feb.

Jack Copps announced Monday this will be his final year as superintendent of Billings School District 2. His last day will be June 30, 2010.

A 30-year-old Glasgow resident was reported missing Saturday afternoon. Jason Gleason left his home Friday afternoon to go sight-seeing in the Fort Peck area and has not been heard from since.

UPDATE: The vehicle Gleason is driving is dark, flat blue, not light blue as was previously reported.

POPLAR - Kevin Loren Longtree, 45, died Monday at his home in Poplar. The coroner has not determined the cause of death.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press CRAIG, Mont. A small plane that made an emergency landing on Interstate 15 north of Craig over the weekend used that same roadway to take off again.

Chris Morrow shows the unusual antler growth on the mule deer buck he took Oct. 30. Such a buck is called a "cactus" buck or a "stag." The condition is caused by the castration of the adult male, which makes it unable to lose the velvet or shed its antlers.

On 1 January 1867, the U.S. Postal Service opened bidding for an overland route for carrying the mail on Route #13611 from Fort Abercrombie near present day Fargo, North Dakota across a thousand miles of northern plains to the gold camp at Helena in Montana Territory.

Rose Marie Harden Welch, 63, of Great Falls and formerly of Wolf Point, died of natural causes Tuesday at her home.