The first area resident to contract COVID-19 had recently traveled out of state, said local health officials as they announced the disease’s presence in Lincoln County on March 25.
The Troy Public Schools Board of Trustees voted March 15 to close the district’s facilities just minutes before Gov. Steve Bullock ordered schools across the state closed in the face of COVID-19.
Community members got their first glimpse this week at a potential candidate to replace outgoing Superintendent Craig Barringer — and it turned out to be a familiar face.
As the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus sweeping the globe a pandemic, Lincoln County health officials announced they have formed a task force to address the illness locally.
Prosecutors will drop a slew of charges against Alvin McKenzie Savage III after he pleaded no contest to a count of assault on a peace officer as part of a deal announced March 2.
A man who led law enforcement officials on a chase along Farm to Market and Swede Mountain roads late Tuesday night died of apparent self-inflicted wounds at the hospital March 11.
A Trego man accused of inflicting years of physical and mental abuse on his wife pleaded guilty to a single charge of assault with a weapon March 2 after striking a deal with prosecutors.
A Trego man accused of inflicting years of physical and mental abuse on his wife pleaded guilty to a single charge of assault with a weapon March 2 after striking a deal with prosecutors.
It began with a one paragraph news item from the other side of the country, part of a regular feature of The Western News aimed at keeping residents connected to the wider world in autumn 1918.
Lincoln County District Judge Matthew Cuffe handed down a suspended three-year sentence to Kathleen Marie Donoghue on March 2 after she pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs.
Libby Mayor Brent Teske invited the owner of a proposed ceramics shop to reapply for a business license after city councilors denied her permission last month.
Despite growing anxiety surrounding the coronavirus nationally, local health officials said the best steps residents could take likely are the most well known.
A group of residents spearheading an effort to bring more Montana-based television stations to Lincoln County got a boost from U.S. Sen. Steve Daines’ office last week.
