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With fire season approaching, fire managers in the Jefferson Division of the Lewis and Clark National Forest now have the choice, for the first time, of immediately attacking fires or managing for resource benefits - or both.

W.F. 'Bud' Heath, 77, of Raynesford, an Air Force veteran, died Wednesday in Great Falls after a long illness.

Mining waste containing high levels of lead and arsenic taint more than 60 properties in Neihart, but the kickoff Tuesday for an $11.8 million cleanup was decidedly upbeat.

An $11.8 million pollution clean-up plan has been OK'd for the town of Neihart, where soils in some properties and roads contain unsafe concentrations of lead and arsenic from previous mining activity, the EPA said Monday.

The EPA says an $11.8 million plan has been approved for the town of Neihart to clean up soil contaminated by years of mining.

An $11.8 million pollution clean-up plan has been OK'd for the town of Neihart, where soils in some properties and roads have been contaminated by lead and arsenic from previous mining activity, the EPA said Monday.

The earliest birthday Helen Jordan remembers was when she turned 6. Living in Neihart at the time, the basement of her family's apartment building was dirt, making it the perfect place to play.

Officials with the Lewis and Clark National Forest have announced plans to intentionally set fires ranging from 21 to 850 acres in an effort to spur new habitat growth and lower the risk of wildfires.

NEIHART - Nancy Westervelt has always liked Neihart. 'We'd been driving through this area for several years,' said Westervelt who previously lived in Harlem.

Capt. Kelly Mark Johnson takes command Friday of the world's largest naval installation at Norfolk, Va.

Cascade County has received $176,288 from the Environmental Protection Agency for education and monitoring efforts, which are considered key components of a multi-million dollar mining pollution cleanup at ...

The environment became the focus of today's Cascade County commission meeting. Multimedia Watch The Video Primarily, that concern lies over the expanded cost of the Neihart clean up.

Neihart residents urged EPA officials to get going on an $11 million revised pollution cleanup in their town at a public hearing in Great Falls on Tuesday.

The Montana office of the federal Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a more protective health standard for the cleanup of lead-laced property in the Neihart federal Superfund project.

The EPA says that several more properties near Neihart will have to be cleaned of lead contamination, and that will drastically increase costs.