Ron Wirth News Today

The contribution pushes the total amount donated to the local shelter just over $30,000 since the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Department began participating in the program.

Gross production from the largest Powder River Basin coalbed methane operators, joint partners Western Gas Resources Inc. and Barrett Resources, hit a year-end target of 200 MMcf/d in mid-December, then exceeded that goal by producing 206 MMcf/d in the last two weeks of the year. Now the producers are crossing their fingers that pending permits to further ramp up production gain approval by Wyoming regulators.

Ravalli County voters deny a college levy for a second time.

Voters in the Bitterroot Valley school districts have been sending in their ballots.