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Bigfork is no closer to a solution for the closing of the downtown Bridge Street Bridge despite a meeting between Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, Montana Department of Transportation officials, Flathead County representatives, and Bigfork residents and business owners Friday.

MISSOULA, Mont. - The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) sent a consultant out in the summer to Maclay Bridge and what was found, was a deterioration to the steel that

Members of the Legislative Environmental Quality Council were concerned to learn how little the Montana Department of Transportation has done.

Members of the Legislative Environmental Quality Council were concerned to learn how little the Montana Department of Transportation has done.

Members of the Legislative Environmental Quality Council were concerned to learn how little the Montana Department of Transportation has done.

Members of the Legislative Environmental Quality Council were concerned to learn how little the Montana Department of Transportation has done.

MILLTOWN — An immovable object theoretically offsets an irresistible force, but in life, the force usually wins. So appears the status of two concrete bridge piers constricting the mouth the Blackfoot River that have resisted more than a decade of efforts to remove them along with other manufactured hazards at its confluence with the Clark Fork River. Last week, Montana environmental and transportation officials announced a breakthrough that should finally get those blocks out of the wa...