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The powwow is a public celebration and demonstration of community pride in Indian culture and a way of honoring Native American heritage.

May 25, 1879 from The Weekly Missoulian: The Indians who were removed from Missoula are encamped at Frenchtown and say they will fight before they are removed to the reservation.

Although the Idle No More protest had a light attendance, coordinator Ruth Swaney took an opportunity to unofficially debate a Western Montana Water Users Association Board member on the topic of the CS&KT Water Compact.

A 1963 painting called, 'Chief Charlo and the Flatheads Crossing the Bitterroot River,' by the late artist Sandy Ingersoll was brought to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes headquarters as a permanent display by the wishes of the late Jim and Beryl Stover last Wednesday.

The Missoula City Council met for the first time with representatives from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to discuss economic development, supporting the city's Indian population, and Missoula's rich tribal history.

A mother from Laurel did something unexpected when testifying at a hearing - she held her cell phone to the lectern's microphone and played a message from her school district.

In 1998, a Missoula band called the Sputniks went on tour with a writer from the New Yorker .

Five Sasquatch bands you don't have to miss by Dameon Matule Follow the Clark Fork west into Washington state's Columbia River and you'll come to the one of the most stunning amphitheaters in North America: The Gorge.

City's poplar grove could be a model for managing waste by Jessica Mayrer On a recent sunny afternoon, Missoula Wastewater Treatment Facility Superintendent Starr Sullivan walks through a poplar grove that's dotted with deer scat, mossy patches and the shadows of birds flitting above.

by Brooks Johnson Surfer Blood really is a band for Missoula 20-somethings like myself—and not just because I happened to be re-watching 'Twin Peaks' when their breakthrough first album, Astro Coast, came out in 2010 with a great track called 'Twin Peaks.' Rather, the band is a good fit because it represents the line between restless youth and getting up early every morning to make coffee for the suits.… [ Read more ]

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The attorney for a Missoula man charged with stabbing a Dixon man to death in December says he plans to argue his client suffers from a mental disease or defect.

On May 20, Steve Zetterberg leaned back in a chair and propped his boots on what used to be the receptionist's desk at Highway Technologies' Missoula branch office.

As the Missoulian puts it, “There's rotten cellphone service, there's nonexistent cellphone service, and then there's what's happening just a few miles east of Ovando.” Which is exactly nothing, because a 195-foot-tall cell phone tower near this tiny western Montana town has never connected a call to anybody.

The company that owns the former Kmart building in Missoula plans to raze it and construct buildings to house a Cabela's Outpost and a Kohl's Department Store.

The flames engulfed the bus near Williston on Sunday night. Company spokesman Kevin Pursey tells The Associated Press the 20 people on board got off safely, though the bus likely is destroyed.

GCS today announced a new webinar series focused on developing solutions to the challenges of Geospatial Big Data by leveraging the fusion of location analytics, mobile platforms and cloud technologies.

Authorities in northwestern Montana say the abduction of a 2-year-old girl that triggered an Amber Alert ended Sunday morning when the girl was found unharmed.

The Montana Highway Patrol tells the Missoulian the crash occurred about 9:40 p.m. Friday on the Eastside Highway near Bell Crossing.

Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado is urging the U.S. Forest Service to make sure a contract dispute doesn't ground large air tankers used to fight wildfires.

May 12, 1875 from The Weekly Missoulian: "The Flatheads under a military escort had pitched their tents on their old stamping ground, and buffalo robes and pemmican were in active demand, and business was consequently brisk." May 13, 1887from The Missoulian: When there is reported killing of deer by Flatheads up the LoLo Valley, Major Ronan is ... (more)