billings gazette

Larry Mayer is an incredible photographer here in Montana. He's been with The Billings Gazette for over 40 years. A new exhibit opens July 7th.

A WWII Marine was finally brought home to Moccasin, Montana and laid to rest. Family, friends, and patriots gathered in the Central Montana town to give Lt. Gordon Thompson a proper goodbye, over eight decades later.

If you lose your local paper, you lose the majority of your local coverage. So we'll get fewer pictures of small-town parades, criminals to be on the lookout for, and somebody's kids making a basket in the big school tournament.

There was a plan. And it was a plan to shoot down the China spy balloon over the Beartooth Mountains. Larry Mayer joined us to talk about his latest report.

Just admit that the Chick-Fil-A chicken is incredible.

Paul and I put an article out every day. And anybody who can afford the internet is welcome to say anything they want to us.

We were talking about downtown crime. We were talking about the transients downtown. And, we got to talking about how empty the big Billings Gazette building has been of late. "Didn't you hear that building is for sale?" I asked them. "Really?" They asked. Yep.

I was sitting in my car outside of a store in Billings on Sunday afternoon, and I spotted a couple guys with clipboards getting signatures from people walking in. What in the world are these guys collecting signatures for? Is it the marijuana legalization thing again? Nah, it can't be that because EVERYBODY is signing this thing, and they look excited to do so.

We caught up with Montana News Guild organizers for a quick Q & A about their effort to unionize at the Billings Gazette.

Lieutenant Governor, and Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Mike Cooney (D-MT) was busted for making campaign fundraising calls from his official office in the state capitol.