Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

The town of Mt. Crested Butte sent out text notifications regarding the power outage through its new TextMyGov messaging system. Town staff said that while town hall’s phones and internet were down, ...

A winter weather advisory is in place for a large portion of the area, from Missoula and Kalispell southeast to Butte and ...