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Ty's Take The groundbreaking out in the Heights for a new memory care home is the kind of story that matters more than the headline suggests. This region's getting older—you see it everywhere from the clinic waiting rooms to the empty seats at high school
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Ty's Take A handful of our high school kids made the trip to Helena this week for something called Heads Up Camp—a chance to shadow folks working in behavioral health and mental wellness. It's worth noting because the kids who go to camps like that
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Ty's Take A woman faces murder charges in a killing at the Spa Hot Springs, another family buries two sisters lost to road accidents, and somewhere in this county right now a family is grieving—the kind of grief that doesn't make the job postings or
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Ty's Take The St. Peter's and Billings Clinic announcement reads like a chess move dressed up in partnership language, which tells you something about where our two anchor health systems stand—committed enough to coordinate, not quite ready to merge. That matters for a region that
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Ty's Take The frost that took out thousands of apples across western Montana this spring is the kind of loss that doesn't make the evening news but gets talked about at every coffee shop from here to Missoula—farmers who've spent years building something
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Ty's Take When thermometers hit records and funding gets tight, you find out who's serious about building something versus who's just collecting a paycheck. The new director at the economic development office walked in knowing both things would be true—the heat's
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Ty's Take The obits page tells you something the business section won't—this region's still losing the generation that built it. Three names today, ranging from their seventies into their nineties, the kind of lives that spanned from when Billings was half this size
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in today's paper—a paleo artist down in Miles City capturing what looks like the last moments of a dinosaur, a kid from here heading to St. Louis to speak her mind, and meanwhile we're
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Ty's Take The data center fight keeps getting messier—first Missoula pumps the brakes with a moratorium, then Quantica throws its weight behind a county lawsuit that's got people fired up. Meanwhile, the rest of us are trying to figure out what this boom actually means
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Ty's Take There's something that settles in a community when sentences get handed down for crimes against children—a kind of collective exhale mixed with the knowledge that justice, even when it comes, doesn't undo anything. The hundred-year sentence in Helena Valley doesn'
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Ty's Take Legionnaire's disease at a downtown hotel, a data center question heading to court before voters get their say, animal control caught in a budget squeeze—this is the kind of week that reminds you Billings isn't just a regional hub, it'
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Ty's Take The West End water treatment plant creeping toward the finish line says something about this city that doesn't always get said out loud—we're still growing, still betting on ourselves, still willing to spend the money to handle what comes next. That