Silver Bow County News

BUTTE - Butte-Silver Bow County officials have released the name of a 23-year-old man whose body was found in the back yard of a Butte home.

BOZEMAN - The Montana State University Extension Master Gardener program has undergone some changes for 2010 to better serve both beginning and experienced gardeners.

Some of Butte's aging historic buildings could find new homes if an idea by Commissioner Dave Palmer pans out.

Butte-Silver Bow County is calling in the attorney general's office to oversee the investigation into the conduct of two employees.

A Butte-Silver Bow Council member says he has the votes to stop the Mountain States Transmission Intertie or MSTI power line proposal in the county.

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The Gallatin County Health Department has received a limited amount of H1N1 vaccine and have distributed the vaccine to the community physicians, who have been administering the vaccine to the specific target groups.

A Bozeman "free market" think tank is taking the State of Montana and Silver Bow County to task for concealing details of a feasibility study for a wind turbine assembly plant in Butte.

Butte's Chamber of Commerce and other local development agencies recently welcomed some new business to town.

A new $800,000 Butte emergency operations center is one step closer to reality. The Senate passed the Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which includes funding for the facility.

The worst of the H1N1 flu outbreak appears to have passed at schools in Anaconda.

A new alternative route for NorthWestern Energy's 500 kilo-volt electric transmission line, known as "MISTI", will be presented at a public meeting in Butte on Thursday evening.

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A former bookkeeper for the Powell County Ambulance Service was arrested on embezzlement charges this week.

It has been almost one year since Butte-Silver Bow county commissioners voted to publicly fund a supercomputer to be kept in the Mining City.

BENJAMIN - Son born Thursday to Tamara and Mark Benjamin of Cut Bank. LAROCQUE/LAPIER - Son born Wednesday to Ashley LaRocque and L.J. Lapier of Great Falls.

Counties in the dark about H1N1 vaccine Mike Mestas Health officials estimated they would have an H1N1 ready to deliver to counties across the state by early fall.

Plans to create a DUI court in Butte are moving forward. A team from Butte-Silver Bow recently returned from a four-day training session in Michigan.

The public will have a chance to weigh in on the Butte-Silver Bow County budget at a commissioners meeting Wednesday night.

Montana is rife with natural and cultural landscapes, from Pictograph cave near Billings to the Butte-Anaconda Historic District in Silver Bow and Deer Lodge counties.