Billings Mayor

Tribes from all over Montana came to Billings on Friday night. Veteran William Medicine Crow and MSU Billings Interim Chancellor Ron Larson led the grand entry of the 50th annual MSUB Powwow. Billings Mayor Bill Cole also took part in the festivities...

Q2 reports that new Ward 4 Billings City Council member Reg Gibbs was appointed Monday night, but only after another council member from the same ward blasted the nomination. Gibbs will replace Ryan Sullivan, who moved to Texas for a new job...

The Gazette reports that Billings Mayor Bill Cole has condemned racist and anti-gay vandalism after swastikas and other graffiti were found emblazoned on property at Grace United Methodist Church, Lewis & Clark Middle School, Senior High School and Pioneer Park. ...

Two-term Billings Mayor Tom Hanel and his wife, Robin, bid farewell and thank you to about 150 friends and family at the Northern Hotel on Thursday evening, and the half-dozen people or so chosen to speak thanked Hanel for his leadership and dedication...

As the Billings City Council bid farewell to Mayor Tom Hanel, they also delayed until January the process of replacing the city administrator. The Council appears unlikely to re-negotiate with their former top choice. The move at Monday’s meeting came after Greg Doyon, the current Great Falls city manager, declined the job Friday on the basis of salary and other contractual items...

Q2 reports Billings’ Mayor-elect Bill Cole said that he hopes to reopen contract negotiations for city administrator nominee Greg Doyon when he takes office in January. Doyon publicly spurned the city council’s offer on Friday morning...

KTVQ.com reports that the race for Billings mayor went to attorney Bill Cole by a comfortable margin on Tuesday night.  Cole is the former chairman of the Billings Chamber of Commerce board of directors and former president of the Yellowstone County Planning Board...

Former Planning Board member Bill Cole and State Rep. Jeff Essmann, former chairman of the Republican Party of Montana are headed for a November showdown to become Billings’ next mayor in the general election.  Q2 reports that voters selected the two top candidates from a field of six during Tuesday’s primary election...

The field of candidates for Mayor of Montana’s most populous city has now risen to five.  Singer-songwriter Danielle Egnew, filed late on Thursday in the race to replace outgoing Mayor Tom Hanel, who can’t run again this year under a term-limits provision of the City Charter, bringing the number of officially declared candidates to four, with one other person saying he intends to file...

The race for Billings’ Mayor is getting more crowded.  A fourth candidate, Danny Sandefur, has joined the race to succeed Tom Hanel as Mayor.  Sandefur is the co-owner of CDS The Edge Performing Arts Center with his wife.  He also works as a realtor for Century 21...