Phillips County News Archives

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.