Billings Daily Digest Sunday, September 06, 2026
Ty's Take
The Gazette's move to new digs is worth watching, not because anyone cares much where the printing press sits, but because the paper's commitment to staying put matters in a town like this. Regional papers are vanishing across the country, gutted by economics and neglect, and Billings could've easily become another casualty. Instead, the newsroom's planting itself deeper, which sends a signal: somebody still thinks there's business in covering what happens here, from the obits that mark the passage of our neighbors to the kids running cross country on Saturday morning to the dancers at Chief Plenty Coups keeping tradition alive. That kind of steady local coverage doesn't generate headlines. It generates a community that knows itself.
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Billings Gazette
Billings neighbors: Obituaries for September 6
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Photos: Dancers perform for the Day on Honor at Chief Plenty Coups State Park on Saturday.
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Photo: Healthy Tribes Run on the Rims starts Saturday morning
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From the Editor: The Billings Gazette is moving, but we're not going anywhere
The Billings Gazette is relocating from its longtime home at 401 N. Broadway to Granite Tower at 222 N. 32nd St. in Billings later this month. The move marks the paper's fourth location since its founding in 1885, when the original office burned down just hours before the first issue was published....
Yellowjackets open 2026 cross country season at Bobcat Twilight
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Rocky men’s cross country places third at MSU Bobcat
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Rocky volleyball falls in five-set home opener thriller
Rocky's volleyball team fell to MSU-Northern in a five-set home opener after a back-and-forth battle that went 25-20, 17-25, 25-22, 24-26, 13-15. Sadie Meier led the Battlin' Bears with 13 kills while Zoey Albert posted a career-high 37 digs on the defensive end. Despite nearly closing out the...
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