Liberty County News

Bozeman school administrators plan $80 million in building projects over the next four years, while Roy's superintendent must cope with having no music program, no business classes and no home economics class to offer his students.

CHESTER - Ernest Joseph Gagnon, 96, a lifelong Liberty County area farmer who enjoyed reading, music, woodworking, remodeling and building projects, died of natural causes on Saturday at his farm home south of Chester.

U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., recently announced that his congressional field representative Mike Waite will be conducting traveling office hours in Chester on Tuesday.

Sometimes they come up empty; sometimes they wishthey had come up empty; and sometimes they get lucky.

Dr. Anna Earl grew up in Fort Benton and knew at some point after medical school she wanted to come back to northcentral Montana.

A couple of years ago, Liberty County Hospital in Chester was struggling to stay open and operating at a loss.

It is the nature of the Montana Legislature that issues which simmered throughout the session heat up to a boil in the final days.

Every day since the Sept. 11 attacks, a deputy or a federal employee patrols Hi-Line reservoirs searching for terrorists.

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is trying to find out just who is killing Montana's raptors.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials are continuing to investigate the shooting of several raptors, including two golden eagles, east of Chester recently.

Wind energy has been in the news often in recent months, but Liberty County is something of an alternative energy pioneer.

A Liberty County man was charged Monday with attempted deliberate homicide for allegedly shooting the county's undersheriff in the ear.

Liberty County's Christmas Festival, originally planned for Dec. 14 but sidetracked by last weekend's blizzard, has been rescheduled for Sunday.

Money is tight for state and local governments right now, and property values in Montana are up - way up.

Chester shows its Christmas spirit this weekend with a festival and a concert by Philip Aaberg.

Lawmakers began looking at ways to mitigate big increases in property tax bills in the wake of an analysis that shows large property value increases in most parts of Montana.

Montana drivers used less gasoline as gas prices topped $4 a gallon last summer.

The value of Montana residential property has jumped an average of 55 percent statewide over the past six and a half years, the state Revenue Department's latest reappraisal numbers show.