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Ty's Take The festival's back, Metcalf's getting recognition, and the branding crews are still moving cattle the way their fathers and grandfathers did—which says something about what holds in this country when everything else is shifting. You can read a lot into a
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher out studying how those big atmospheric river storms actually recharge groundwater in the West—that's the kind of work that matters more than most people realize when you're living on top of your water rights and watching
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Ty's Take Kevin Iffland's staying put as interim city administrator for now, which tells you something about how Billings operates when the real work needs doing—no rush to fill every chair, no political theater around the hiring process. This is a city that knows its
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Ty's Take The news from Helena about sex trafficking, the Title IX fight up in Kalispell, and Community Medical's move to remote pediatric ICU doctors all point to the same uncomfortable truth: institutions we depend on are cutting corners or, worse, failing to protect the people
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Ty's Take The Forest Service rolling out a new app to route hikers and hunters through the high country makes sense—Lord knows we need folks using trails smart, especially with how fire season keeps creeping earlier. But that same day's story about food insecurity in
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Ty's Take There's something about a horse ranch opening on the edge of town that reminds you why people stick around Billings, especially when it's built on the idea that animals can help heal what ails us. Horse Spirits Healing at Creekside Ranch isn&
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Ty's Take Slow Friday in the valley, which means the real work's happening where it usually does—in the clinics and at the markets and in the neighborhoods where people are just getting on with it. Billings Clinic's tenth cohort of internal medicine residents
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Ty's Take Summer tourist season is already on everybody's mind up here, which makes sense—it's the difference between a good year and a lean one for most of the businesses holding on in Red Lodge. The Park Service released their visitor guide for
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Ty's Take When a barn burns in Lockwood and good people pass in Billings, when a man faces murder charges and the city discovers it's been breaking its own rules, you get the kind of week that reminds you why local government and local journalism matter—
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Ty's Take Ted Turner's land deals over the past few decades have quietly reshaped how a lot of us think about conservation in ranch country—whether we admitted it or not at the time. The man bought up pieces of Montana and Wyoming when nobody else
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Ty's Take Norrine turning 96 and still got the spark to celebrate it—that's the kind of staying power this town runs on, whether you're talking about a woman they call the Outlaw Queen or the businesses cutting ribbons and opening new chapters around
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Ty's Take Mining built Montana and mining's still what keeps the lights on here in Billings, which is why that deep dive into the Treasure State's mineral heritage matters more than a history lesson—it's a reminder of who we are and