Carbon County News

The Red Lodge City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 6, unanimously approved buying solar panels to power the citya s waste water treatment plant.

Authorities have identified the three people killed in a head-on collision on U.S. 310 southwest of Billings.

HELENA - Authorities are looking for a small airplane that took off from Wyoming but did not land at its final destination in southern Montana.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... THE DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES OF CARBON COUNTY HAS RECEIVED NEARLY 500-THOUSAND DOLLARS IN FEDERAL STIMULUS MONEY.

Dozens of Carbon County residents expressed their concerns Thursday at a public meeting regarding the development of a sand and gravel plant in Red Lodge.

According to a U.S. Census Bureau report issued Tuesday, Colorado's cities have a wide range of uninsured residents, with one in four in Aurora without coverage, and one in 20 in Highlands Ranch without health insurance.

A controversial Carbon County chimpanzee owner opens a new business in Red Lodge dedicated to animal art.

In the Rockies today, British Columbia is the hot spot in the West for wildfires, and water is again on the agenda in Nevada and Utah, as well as in Montana and Arizona.

A little more than six months ago carbon county resident michael Kananen was one of many Beartooth Electric Co-Op customers experiencing the nearly 50 percent increase in rates.

BILLINGS - The U.S. Attorney's office said a former Montana county prosecutor convicted on cocaine charges should serve extra prison time because he obstructed at least one felony drug case while still in office.

Magic City residents were hit with a lightning show Sunday shortly before six 6:00 p.m. as the clouds rolled in and it poured in Billings most of the evening.

RED LODGE - The Montana State Historic Preservation Review Board recently nominated four properties for the national register.

BILLINGS - Carbon County authorities say a 79-year-old man whose body was found near Silesia last week apparently drowned after crashing his car into an irrigation ditch and being swept into a nearby river.

RED LODGE a ' Carbon County sheriff's deputy, Lt. Josh McQuillan asked Wednesday for the public's assistance in locating a car being sought in connection with a suspicious death investigation.A McQuillan identified the victim, who was found in the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone River Tuesday morning, as Jack Dale Butke, 79, of Fromberg.

BILLINGS - The Carbon County Sheriff's office is searching for a car belonging to a 79-year-old Fromberg man whose body was found Tuesday in the Clark's Fork river north of Silesia.

A former minister accused of killing his wife outside Red Lodge nearly 20 years ago is arraigned in Carbon County.

Bend Police say they arrested 54 year old Cary Greenlee at 15th and Reed Market in Bend without incident.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... A 65-YEAR-OLD MAN ACCUSED OF FATALLY SHOOTING HIS SON LAST WEEK AT A RESIDENCE NEAR FROMBERG WAS ARRAIGNED IN CARBON COUNTY DISTRICT COURT YESTERDAY.

A mother pleads for help for her son and family after a fatal shooting last week in Fromberg.

A 65-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his son at a home near Fromberg is set to be arraigned on murder charges Thursday.