Phillips County News

Laurin Howard Bruckner, 84, of Malta, a longtime Phillips County farmer and rancher and World War II Army veteran, died of natural causes Tuesday in Billings.

CUT BANK - Officials in Cut Bank are asking residents to be patient as construction gets under way in July on the latest phase of the city's water distribution project.

Seven long-billed curlews from Phillips County are leading scientists on a virtual journey from their nests on the Great Plains of Montana to their winter homes on the coast.

MALTA - Phillips County authorities have been searching for a 58-year-old Billings man believed to have drowned in a reservoir northeast of Malta .

Amateur paleontologist Nathan Murphy, a commercial fossil hunter whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing an ancient raptor fossil from private land.

A Billings man went missing Sunday evening in the Nelson Reservoir northeast of Malta.

Paleontologist's sentence includes jail time Amateur paleontologist Nate Murphy has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $2,500 for stealing a raptor fossil from a ranch near Malta.

We are almost 150 miles from the North Dakota border, and you must have good circulation of your newspaper in Glasgow, and possibly even farther east? However, in your weather predictions, you often treat us as though we don't exist, or just shotgun us in as part of Eastern Montana, and of course those predictions are almost always wrong as to any ...

ATLANTA - Police say Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was mugged outside an Atlanta recording studio.

THE jig was up when Julie became Sid Vicious. Unravelling one of palaeontology's more outrageous swindles would take more than two years.

BUTTE - 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 .

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

BILLINGS - The city of Billings has agreed to pay a man $2,500 if he will drop a lawsuit alleging excessive force by a police officer who arrested him.

Nate Murphy, the paleontologist whose famous discoveries graced the cover of Newsweek, pleaded guilty Monday to stealing a rare turkey-sized raptor from a Malta-area landowner.

The paleontologist who discovered Malta's famed mummy dinosaur pleaded innocent Thursday to federal charges of stealing fossils from Bureau of Land Management land.

GLASGOW - State, federal and provincial researchers are expanding an international study of pronghorn antelope migration and habitat needs by placing radio collars on up to 50 additional animals.

While Montana's urban residents scramble to buy converter boxes for their old TVs before broadcasts are converted from analog to digital signals, people in towns such as Malta and Dodson may be in for a ...

MALTA - Army veteran Earl Licht, 81, of Malta, a retired ditch rider for the Phillips County Irrigation District, died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Friday at a Great Falls ...

The weather is severe and so are the travel conditions in North Central Montana.

A 90-year-old man was killed in a house fire south of Dodson along the Montana Hi-Line earlier this week.