Beaverhead County News

Wilderness advocates and key officials say Sen. Jon Tester's office has plans to bring Montana its first new wilderness designation since the 1980s.

The first case of H1N1 virus in Beaverhead County has been confirmed. A Dillon man in his 60s was diagnosed with a mild case of H1N1, which is commonly known as the swine flu.

Townsend's Cowboy Entertainer Gathering includes cowboy poetry and music as well as arts and crafts.

Three former University of Montana Western students accused of breaking into dorm rooms and stealing personal items on campus answered to charges Tuesday.

A 46-year-old Beaverhead County man died when he was thrown from his pickup truck after it rolled on Interstate 15 just south of Dillon.

A Dillon woman is accused of supplying two inmates at the Beaverhead County Detention Center with drugs by sewing amphetamines into the waistbands of men's underwear.

The Beaverhead County Courthouse in Dillon is set to receive a host of upgrades as federal stimulus money comes to its aid.

The trial date has been pushed back for a medical marijuana case in Beaverhead County.

A search dog helped rescuers find the body of a man who was buried by an avalanche, one of three men killed by snow slides in Montana during the weekend.

The Beaverhead County Coroner released the name of the man who died in a weekend avalanche on Mount Jefferson.

HELENA - Mick and Suzanne Hubner of Ennis have claimed a $100,000 prize from the Montana Millionaire game.

A quarter horse mare in Beaverhead County has been quarantined after being exposed to a venereal disease.

A Dillon man remains jailed on $100,000 bond following a stabbing in an alley that sent another man to the hospital.

Wolves, from Jake's point of view: Let me introduce myself; my name is Jake. I am a yellow lab that resided in the beautiful Centennial Valley for the past six years.

Catherine and Bill Cain had heard the grumblings accusing them of cutting off access to a popular public hunting spot along the Big Hole River.

John Nelson said he's always welcomed the public to camp at the American Legion picnic area just outside of Wisdom.