Lewis and Clark County News

A 62-year old man is recovering in the hospital, after a dramatic rescue on a rock cliff near Sun Canyon Lodge.

Veteran Flight Instructor Sparky Imeson was killed in a plane crash back in March of this year and on Wednesday, additional information about the investigation into the accident was released.

HELENA - Authorities said a Helena man who was shot four times in the leg after an argument with a friend has been listed in stable condition at a local hospital.

A 53-year-old Helena man was shot multiple times in the leg during an altercation at a home in the Skelly Gulch area off of Austin Road Thursday night.

On Friday night it was an unusual scene on I-15 when a plane had to make an emergency landing right on the Interstate.

The Montana Highway Patrol closed I-15 near Craig late Saturday morning in order to convert the Interstate into a temporary runway.

No one was injured after a Cessna plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 15 southbound north of Craig on Friday.

An estimated 287 Montana taxpayers are due refund checks from the Internal Revenue Service.

Voters ousted two water and sewer board incumbents who did not support a special resort tax to pay for Craig's overburdened sewer system.

A group known as "The Tea Party Express" held a rally in Helena on Sunday morning to protest government spending and high taxes.

Can you pick the offender out of a lineup ? After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch in a civil suit over the player's death during a 2003 game in Helena.

A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.

After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch in a civil suit over the player's death during a 2003 game in Helena.

On Friday in Helena it was all about the women, as the city's first ever Women's Expo got underway at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds.

Just three weeks after Montanaa s full smoking ban went into effect, Lewis and Clark County issued its first warning letter for violation of the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act.

Late Friday afternoon, local health officials confirmed the first death in Yellowstone County related to the H1N1 virus.

State health officials reported a rise in H1N1 cases in Montana, though exact numbers are no longer being tallied.

The trial of Sebastian Olivares-Coster, the teenager charged with killing one Helena boy and injuring two other teens, will change his plea, it was announced today.

WINIFRED - The town of Winifred will receive federal stimulus money to improve its wastewater collection system.

A jury has determined that the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's office was not criminally liable in the death of a motorcyclist who crashed in Helena as he was being followed by a deputy.