Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

Hi Country is officially under new ownership for the first time since it was founded in 1976 and Travis Byerly has big plans for the future of the...

HELENA - What you need to know about chronic wasting disease in Montana: CWD is a contagious neurological disease that infects deer, elk and moose....

Although most hunters respect the land, property, and wildlife they are hunting, many others do not.  Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks would like to...

MISSOULA – As days become shorter and temperatures drop, the Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation (DNRC) and Bureau of Land...

HELENA - Montana's millions of acres of private land offer some excellent hunting opportunities-the only catch is gaining the landowner's permission...

Last Friday morning Alison Stigora was taking measurements and getting lumber ready for the armature of her piece at Sculpture in the Wild. Stigora's...

Wilderness Car Show and Lambkins Rod Run bring Motorcar Mania to downtown...

It's one thing to view art in a gallery, after it's completed. It's a different thing to watch art being created-and that's what people can do Oct....

Friday the 13th of September was an unlucky night for the Helena Christian Rams volleyball "B squad" of 5th, 6th and some 7th grade ladies as they...

As parents send their children into the new school year and teachers welcome them into the classroom, safety is on everyone's mind. When it comes to...

Price controls are a primary hallmark of a socialist economy. When the government takes over in any market, bad things happen. Whether it is bread...

In Montana, community health centers such as PureView Health Center specialize in whole-person care. Beginning with well-child visits, CHCs provide...

As post-war baby boomers, most of us had parents who had suffered through the Great Depression, and then WWII. They faced the poverty of the 1930s...

Note: This is excerpted from "The Missoula City Band: Stories in Time." By the mid-1890s, the City Band had emerged as the default 'go-to'...

Many of us know someone who has struggled with an addiction. Perhaps they have tried to quit smoking or are addicted to drugs like heroin or...