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Ty's Take When the fair comes to town, you remember why these things matter. An emu in the poultry barn, a hairball competition, kids learning to show animals they've raised from scratch, families walking the grounds on a Sunday morning, a house burned Friday still smoldering
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Ty's Take A Billings man loading up his motorcycle to ride across the country for hemophilia awareness, neighbors we lost this week, the dairy plant passing inspection, and a shooting trial that's still working through what happened in Bonner back in 2023, these are the stories
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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 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 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 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 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&
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Ty's Take A year after the Owl Bar shooting in Anaconda, that small mining town is still carrying the weight of what happened there, and the rest of us in this region ought to remember why those stories matter even after the news cycle moves on. Tragedy in
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Ty's Take The sentences piling up in Yellowstone County courtrooms this week tell you something about what law enforcement has been wrestling with out here. A former BIA officer drawing fourteen years for a crime against a kid in Lame Deer. Two guys running poaching operations across three
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Ty's Take St. John's Lutheran Services jumping into senior housing tells you something about where Billings sits right now, squeezed between aging baby boomers who don't want to leave and a shortage of places built for them to stay. The organization knows there'