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Trump cuts imperil $10m East Helena road fix

JC Monitor - May 14, 2025

A heavily-trafficked two-lane artery stretching north from the center of town, Valley Drive could hardly be more central to circulation in greater East Helena. Commuters...

Columns

‘Exactly what I voted for,’ say Trump backers

JC Monitor - May 13, 2025

I’ve noticed an emerging current of thought among friends on the political left, neatly summarized by the headline of a recent New Yorker interview...

Local

2024 Election Results

JC Monitor - November 6, 2024

Listed here are local ballot totals, by office, reported by the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder early morning Nov. 6. "Win" references the final...

Boulder

Otter attack stuns victims, responders

JC Monitor - August 9, 2023

When Jefferson County Undersheriff James Everett woke up Aug. 2 he could not have imagined the 911 call that would be dialed later that...

National

A new mental health hotline for farmers and ranchers

JC Monitor - November 16, 2022

Monte Bush was only 15 when his grandfather died by suicide on the family farm outside Riverton, Wyoming. One minute, they were working on...

Covid 19

As constituents clamor for ivermectin, Republican politicians embrace the cause

JC Monitor - November 10, 2021

When state senators in South Carolina held two hearings in September about COVID treatments, they got an earful on the benefits of ivermectin—which many...

National

The ‘burn scars’ of wildfires threaten the West’s drinking water

JC Monitor - October 14, 2021

Colorado saw its worst fire season last year, with the three largest fires in state history and more than 600,000 acres burned. But some of...

Features

Good wildfire news? Evidence from the Bootleg Fire supports thinning forests.

JC Monitor - August 11, 2021

As the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon swept toward him last week, Pete Caligiuri of The Nature Conservancy hustled to lay out water pipes...

Basin

Basin man indicted on federal hate crime charge

JC Monitor - June 8, 2021

A man currently serving a prison sentence for firing shots into a Basin home in March 2020 has been indicted on a federal hate...