This reporter ran into heroic Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer and his wife Lindsay just after the Grizzly football game at Washington Grizzly Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
To help keep children safer when they enter and exit school buses, more lights and signage have been added to the buses, according to Montana Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Jay Nelson.
Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Amanda Villa received the agency’s highest award, the Medal of Valor on Monday, after rescuing several firefighters from a downed helicopter during the Deep Creek Canyon fire near Townsend.
At The Brewhouse in Helena on Thursday, Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Zach Freeman was awarded as the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year by the Exchange Club.
The Missoula County Attorney’s Office has issued a warrant for the arrest of Megan Christine Beard on several charges stemming from a fatal three vehicle crash that occurred on Highway 93 South between Missoula and Lolo on February 15.
Tragedy struck on Monday between Missoula and Lolo as one juvenile male was killed and two other individuals were badly injured in a two vehicle crash that occurred on icy roads.
The National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Warning this evening for western Montana, and then a Winter Weather Advisory overnight into Tuesday.
The Missoula County Sheriff and Coroner T.J. McDermott has released the names of the two young men who were killed in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 200 just east of Missoula on Sunday afternoon.
Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Wade Palmer, who was critically wounded in the line of duty on March 15, 2019, officially retired from the Montana Highway Patrol on Monday, surrounded by family, colleagues and friends.