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06/22/2026

From Crow Nation teenagers channeling Nirvana to a Missoula neo-soul collective and Livingston surf-rockers, independent Montana artists just dropped new releases to stock your summer soundtrack.

06/17/2026

A documentary from Missoula's High Plains Films about the insects holding life on earth together is back at the Roxy.

Missoula filmmakers' documentary "The Little Things That Run the World" screens at the Roxy Theater for World Pollinator Month.

06/16/2026

The cake decorators at a Missoula Walmart have become local legends. Corporate has no comment.

The Brooks St. Walmart's cake decorators are serving up pop culture references, Gen Z humor and existential dread — and the internet can't get enough.

06/10/2026

A new web tool called TroutCast can predict how drought will hit Montana's blue-ribbon trout fisheries, potentially before managers have to shut them down.

The new tool links streamflow data to trout population trends — giving Montana anglers and managers a heads-up before drought forces fishing restrictions.

06/09/2026

During the day, Missoula's Montgomery Distillery moonlights as a cafe called Mama Tried.

Mama Tried Cafe, the daytime coffee shop inside Missoula's Montgomery Distillery, serves espresso, Bloody Marys and weekly specials.

06/05/2026

For one Hamilton conservative, the 2026 primary election season became a fight to reclaim and defend his Republican identity from his own political party.

The longtime Bitterroot Valley lawmaker survived a Montana GOP effort to purge him from the party, narrowly beating Kathy Love in the Republican primary for Senate District 43.

06/04/2026

How Missoula's Lolo Hardware turned a climbing obsession, memes and a napkin manifesto into a real(ish) business.

Lolo Hardware isn't in Lolo and it doesn't sell hardware. But for Nate Barton's climbing-apparel shop, that's the whole brand.

06/03/2026

From the Big Dipper to Madagascar, vanilla is anything but plain.

The word "vanilla" can mean boring because the flavor was made boring by design. A Missoula writer traces the complicated history of a simple scoop.

05/30/2026

Three Democrats are vying for an open Missoula legislative seat. Their priorities look similar. Their backgrounds don't.

Nick Kujawa, Sam Kulla and Ben Davis are running to represent House District 93 in the Montana Legislature. Their priorities look similar. Their backgrounds don't.

05/27/2026

Montana Republicans keep trying to rewrite the laws around same-day voter registration and other election procedures. Ahead of the June 2 primary, here's what's settled, what isn't, and who's caught in the middle.

A Montana court has preserved same-day voter registration ahead of the June 2 primary, but new ID rules are still in effect. Here's what's changed.