Powell County News

Fallen law officers were honored in a ceremony in Deer Lodge Friday. A small group of people, including law officers from the state prison and the Powell County Sheriff's Department honored three officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in the past 12 months.

A Washington state man was killed and two others were injured in a one-vehicle crash on icy roads near Garrison.

The Montana Department of Transportation is looking for input on plans to resurface about 12.3 miles of Interstate 90 between Deer Lodge and Opportunity in Powell and Deer Lodge counties.

A 28-year-old woman living in Mount Holly under an assumed name will likely be returned to prison in Montana where she escaped last year, but without the newborn child she delivered here this month.

A Montana State Prison inmate has been sentenced for felony escape in Deer Lodge.

Butte man charged in knife attack John Knapp, 34, is charged with felony assault with a weapon for allegedly brandishing a knife, threatening to kill the victim and causing serious injuries.

Now that the Montana state budget has moved out of committee, the House Appropriations Committee is weighing a bill that will distribute stimulus funding to projects across the state.

An Anaconda man has been sentenced in Powell County Court for felony stalking. Joseph Strieby, 36, is accused of making more than 20 harassing phone calls to a former girlfriend in Deer Lodge over a two-day ...

The state Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a former Powell County deputy treasurer who pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Mickey Charlene Davis loved ceramics, gardening, crochet and, late in life, Montana.

An Oklahoma woman froze to death and her common-law husband was rescued from a similar fate by Powell County law officers after winter caught the two unprepared in a shack high in the Garnet Mountains.

MISSOULA - Authorities are investigating the circumstances that led to a woman from Oklahoma freezing to death in a remote cabin in the Garnet Mountains after she and her common-law husband were apparently ...

Authorities are investigating the circumstances of an Oklahoma woman found frozen to death in a remote cabin in the Garnet Mountains.

In 1959, a bloody riot broke out in Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. This year is the 50th anniversary of the event, and the topic of Jim Blodgett's talk at the Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation ...

The delegation representing the Helena area in the Montana Senate is evenly split, with two Republicans and two Democrats.

The Rialto Community Theatre in Deer Lodge was recently awarded $50,000 grants from foundations in Montana and Delaware for its restoration project.

The state extended a helping hand to Sun Mountain Lumber on Tuesday by approving the deferral of loan principal and interest payments for two years.