Missoula News

This week: Third annual Garden City Community Brew The story: For the third year in a row, local breweries and tavern owners are releasing a beer specifically to benefit a community nonprofit.

For such a sparsely populated state, Montana has managed to generate some outsized headlines lately.

DON'T WORRY, IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE THE APOCALYPSE: "Workers are attempting to remove three enormous Boeing 737 fuselages from the Clark Fork River near Missoula, Montana, after they were ejected from a derailed train over the weekend.

Work crews remove one of the Boeing 737 fuselages that plunged into the Clark Fork River east of Superior, Mont., on Monday, July 7, 2014.

While working on the Wednesday print column -- on the college campus sexual assault numbers released last week in connection with a story in The Washington Post -- Rowan Frost at Reed College directed me to an arresting set of images out of Missoula, Montana.

Work crews remove one of the Boeing 737 fuselages that plunged into the Clark Fork River east of Superior, Mont., on Monday, July 7, 2014.

MISSOULA Vintage travel films, an aged piece of sweet memorabilia, songs from a bovine point of view and contemporary American Indian art make up a new episode of the popular MontanaPBS travelogue series "Backroads of Montana."

Damon Ristau, an independent filmmaker from Missoula, Montana, wants your help to fund his new documentary, "A Bug Movie."

This July 5 photo shows components of three Boeing aircraft sitting near or in the Clark Fork River on July 3 after the train carrying them derailed near Missoula, Mont.

Looking like salmon migrating upstream, the fuselages of several unfinished Boeing jets were being "fished out" of the Clark Fork River near Missoula today after a cargo train derailed in the mountains of Montana.

Montana officials are considering adding Koessler Lake as part of an effort to remove invasive species and restore native cutthroat trout.

MISSOULA Vintage travel films, an aged piece of sweet memorabilia, songs from a bovine point of view and contemporary American Indian art make up a new episode of the popular MontanaPBS travelogue series "Backroads of Montana."

A western Montana man has been acquitted of threatening to kill President Barack Obama if he should ever visit the area.

If People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had their way you would. They've launched a campaign to show the world how stupid they can be - I mean, to rename fish as "sea kittens."

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A new electronic music conference is making its debut. DAT Music Conference will take place in Missoula, Montana from August 1st - 3rd, 2014.

A hearings officer with the Department of Labor denied a request by the federal government dismiss a grievance that retired U.S. Army Capt.

A hearings officer with the Department of Labor denied a request by the federal government dismiss a grievance that retired U.S. Army Capt.

A Missoula man who was found guilty of negligent endangerment for failing to look upstream before he jumped off a bridge and landed on a man floating down the Clark Fork River has been ordered to pay more than $22,000 in restitution.

Encroaching on Greenough by Ted McDermott Until a new survey was completed in 2012, the boundaries of Greenough Park were vague and shifting.