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Ty's Take When a man admits to killing a Billings mother of five, when a trial opens over a 2023 shooting death, when a woman in Helena waits for justice in a rape case, the obits page doesn't feel like just another section anymore. These are
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Ty's Take The fishing restrictions coming down from Yellowstone are going to sting some folks who've been planning late summer trips, but the park service didn't do this on a whim. When you're seeing pressure like that on the rivers and streams,
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Ty's Take A milk plant suspension, a political fracture inside the Republican Party, and a half-million-dollar renovation bill for South Park Pool. On the surface it looks like three separate stories fighting for attention on a slow August news cycle. But there's something worth
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Ty's Take A quilt show drawing a crowd in Red Lodge says something about who we are up here. There's skill in those stitches, sure, and people come for the colors and the patterns, but there's also something else going on when a room
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Ty's Take When the news gets thin and what's left is mostly what we've lost and what we're not doing, it's worth asking what that says about a place. Billings is wrestling with the kind of decisions that don'
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Ty's Take Tourism money flowing into Montana hit $5.6 billion last year, and you can bet some of those dollars made their way through Sweet Grass County, whether it was fuel at the stations along the highway, a meal in town, or a guide service heading up
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Ty's Take The smoke hanging over Billings this week is a reminder that fire season doesn't care much about city limits, and neither does the wind that pushed the Elder fire toward half containment despite the weekend's best efforts. Meanwhile, the arrests in that
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Ty's Take Sheriff Linder's retirement reflection reminds you that the best law enforcement work in a county this size happens quietly, without fanfare, mostly in conversations nobody writes down. The man's been doing this job long enough to see Yellowstone County grow from something
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Ty's Take The quilt show coming through town this weekend is the kind of thing that doesn't make the evening news anywhere else, but it matters here because it's about time and hands and what people do when they're not hauling hay
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Ty's Take Sheriff Mike Linder's been out there doing the work that keeps this county running, and seeing him touch down again reminds you why these local figures matter more than most people give them credit for. Meanwhile, Rocky's laying out fall ticketing plans
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Ty's Take A new president at the state university, 31 fresh nurses joining Billings Clinic, a church that's been here since the beginning marking another chapter, and a medical residency program hitting its tenth year. That's the kind of day it is, and that&