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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.

At a ceremony on Wednesday in the office of Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, three heroic Montana Highway Patrol troopers were presented the ‘Award of Valor’ for conspicuous bravery in the line of duty

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.

Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton has identified the person who was killed in last Friday’s four-vehicle crash near Florence as 61 year-old Christine Howe of Florence.

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.

The 2019 Montana Highway Patrol Annual Report was issued on Tuesday, and KGVO reached out to the MHP Commander Colonel Tom Butler for the statistics revealed in the report.