The Monitor

12/16/2025

Nasty forecast for tomorrow from the National Weather Service. Be careful out there!

12/13/2025

Two men involved in a 2023 elk poaching incident in the Elkhorn Mountains pleaded guilty last week and have been banned from hunting in Montana for several years.

12/12/2025

“It feels so good. It’s just this cozy small town. I know there are plenty of bigger towns or cities that don’t have parades. I just think it’s wonderful that people put the effort into this and that people come out for it.”

As if on cue, snow began falling just as the Boulder Outlaws 4-H Club started selling Christmas trees outside the Elkhorn Bistro Friday evening. The flurries continued through the night,

12/12/2025

Sam E. Haddon, 88, died peacefully in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.

12/12/2025

After many years bringing music into the hearts of many of us, Dave Buness departed on Nov. 23 to direct the great choir in the sky. He passed peacefully, with

12/12/2025

Comming to The Myrna Loy!

12/04/2025

The owner of the Montana Tunnels Mine outside Jefferson City has made a deal to be acquired by a money-losing maker of large-scale LED displays. Why? Good question.

In a deal that could complicate efforts by the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Jefferson County to force a sale of the Montana Tunnels Mine outside Jefferson City,

12/04/2025

"They’ll never not call this building the Elkhorn.”

When Danielle Welcome first walked into the empty restaurant space on Main Street with building owner Rusty Guilio, she knew it felt right.

12/01/2025

Gov. Greg Gianforte has selected four Jefferson County residents for the 2025 Montana Governor’s Veteran Commendation. Todd Gerving of Clancy, Larrey Lattin and Jim Richardson of Boulder, and Isaac Soto of Jefferson City were among 61 recipients, nominated by fellow Montanans, who will be honored at an award ceremony next year. They’ll each receive a commemorative flag flown over the State Capitol.

12/01/2025

“The DNRC decided back in the 80s or 90’s that groundwater surface water connections were more tenuous than some signs indicated,” said Stan Bradshaw, a retired water attorney, adding that this view had begun to shift. Officials now see “it’s death by a thousand straws, as you accumulate enough,” he added. “If you see a lot of residential development, you could ultimately see a connection to flows dropping.”

“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw,” fictional early 20th-century oilman Daniel Plainview explains to preacher Eli Sunday in the 2007 film

12/01/2025