According to The World Forum, there are 1.2 billion youth in the world aged 15 to 24. They comprise 17% of the world's population and 40% of the world's unemployed. As summer begins here in Montana, the the unemployment rate for youth age 16 to 24 ranges from 14% to just over 22%.
The Missoula business community has come forward to replace the trees damaged or destroyed by vandals last weekend.
It seldom happens, but when it does the Missoula City Fire Department mobilizes in a big way. Trench rescue training was conducted on Thursday afternoon at the city gravel yard at Rodgers and Shakespeare streets.
The 2013 Montana legislature passed a new law that made child endangerment a felony crime.
The Missoula City Council on a vote of 10 to 2 this week, passed the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, according to City Finance Officer Brent Ramharter.
Out to Lunch in Caras Park is a Missoula tradition, and will launch its 28th season on Wednesday, June 5.
Cindy Umphrey, 50, is in the Lake County jail on $250,000 bail after a weekend methamphetamine raid at a residence in Pablo.
Record-setting Montana Grizzly wide receiver and kick returner Marc Mariani is back at spring camp with the Tennessee Titans, after suffering a gruesome compound leg fracture in August of 2012.
The fire on May 29 that killed dozens of pets, including dogs, cats, chickens, cockatiels and other animals was caused by a candle that caused other combustibles to burn, causing over $45,000 in damage to the home, injuring two human residents, as well.
Sunday morning's acts of vandalism to young trees along Brooks street in Missoula could potentially top $6,000, according to one city official.
On May 31, Green Investment Group, the company that has purchased the former Smurfit-Stone Container site and renamed it the Frenchtown Technology and Industrial Center, announced the sale of an Ohio property after completion of environmental cleanup at the site.
Eric Seagrave is learning to live with the disappointment of a western Montana spring. As Aquatics Supervisor for Missoula Parks and Recreation, Seagrave had to make the call to keep the doors to Splash Montana closed again this weekend.
