Jon King

Emergency crews responded to an incident at the DreamSleep Mattress store on South Reserve Street in Missoula around 3 p.m. today (Friday, Aug. 24) in which a woman drove a green Subaru Outback through the front of the store.

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At around 3:30 a.m. on August 23, a man lashed out at St. Patrick Hospital workers with a box cutter.

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Terror in Colorado.

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According to a Northwest Energy spokeswoman, many circuits lost power in Lolo, Alberton Florence and Missoula due to a violent windstorm. As of 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, two substations were reporting power losses, specifically station #5 that feeds Missoula’s south side (and is reportedly back on-line) and substation #7 that feeds Missoula’s west side. Northwest Ene

Foley will handle other UM duties.

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“Sex sells” has been a standby of the marketing industry since its inception, but can that technique sell an ideology as easily as a product? The group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has been testing that marketing plan to promote veganism and to stop what they call animal cruelty for a long time

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The Missoula Public Works Committee has approved a two cent gas tax resolution in hopes of finding a new way to pay for Missoula’s sidewalks. As proposed, the tax would be split 60-40 between the city of Missoula and Missoula county, leaving the county free allocate the money to road development or use the buffer to decrease property taxes

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Ever since the sexual assault investigations began at the U of M, I’ve been struggling to discover how abnormal, if at all, Missoula is compared to the rest of the country. As part of my research, I contacted the National Sexual Violence Res

Getting the news to the public has never been easy, but now YouTube has made the process of reaching millions a little easier, as long as you electrocute yourself or happen to fall off of a a suspended platform

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Political yard signs are popping up all over Missoula. Some folks have just one sign, others have a dog-pile of signs that barely seem to fit on the small patch of lawn they sit on. It’s easy to see why someone would put a sign in their yard for a close family member or friend. It’s even easy for me to see why someone would put up a  sign for someone that they agree with strongly, but many times, you’ll even see opposing candidates (usually primary level) on the same lawn.

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