Phillips County News

Congressman Denny Rehberg's state director has returned to work full-time after a long recovery from an August boat crash that left him with a severe head injury.

Attorneys are set to meet at a pretrial hearing next month in the case against state Sen.

Jones beat out current mayor Byron Ereaux, who received 259 votes as a write-in candidate, in the Republican primary.

Hinsdale native Ernest 'Ernie' Grant, 87, of Great Falls, a former janitor at the Phillips County Courthouse in Malta, died of natural causes Sunday at a local care facility.

SACO - James M. Caves, 79, of Saco, an Army veteran and rancher, died of natural causes Thursday at the Phillips County Hospital.

Ovidia A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker, died of natural causes on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, at the Phillips County Hospital.

SACO - Ovidia A. Haynes, 86, a homemaker and lifelong Phillips County resident, died of natural causes Tuesday at a Malta hospital.

Ranchers criticize plans for bison herds at BLM meeting Ranching interests sharply criticized a private grassland preserve in northeastern Montana as well as a new federal initiative in which new free-roaming bison herds could be established in the West.

Nearly two months after he says he was knocked cold by someone who stole his new pickup truck and wrecked it, Victor DeSautel of Fort Benton is still waiting for an arrest.

Malta's 100th birthday celebration continues with a grand ball on Aug. 15, hosted by members of the Malta Dirt Daubers Garden Club and the Phillips County Historical Society.

Adyline Nora Rummel, 94, of Great Falls, a retired employee of the Green Thumb program, died of natural causes Wednesday at a local nursing home.

Tired of working on your house or toiling in your garden? Spend a leisurely summer afternoon touring other folks' homes and gardens on Sunday in Malta.

Malta celebrates its centennial with activities throughout the summer, including a historic re-enactment featuring three notorious figures of the Wild West at the Phillips County Museum on Saturday.

MALTA - Many small towns in eastern Montana are fighting to remain vital, with aging populations, shrinking school enrollments and fewer jobs to keep high school graduates in the area.

MALTA - Folks in this Hi-Line agricultural community are so proud of their history that they're extending the centennial celebration across the summer.

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.