Recently added articles from The Billings Gazette:
Wheat crop draws positive reviews
Aug 05, 2008; Lutey, Tom ... Northbound on Highway 47, grain rucks lumber toward the Hardin eleator, traveling bumper to bumper like pack animals straining beneath heavy burdens of hard red winter wheat. It is a scene that will play out on secondary roads across Montana for weeks come as an anticipated ...
Relaxing in Red Lodge
Aug 05, 2008; Tode, Laura ... RED LODGE - Up and down Broadway in Red Lodge, life's beginning to look a little more like it used to before the Cascade fire erupted on July 26. The smoky haze gone, businesses' doors were propped open to take advantage of the mountain breeze on Monday. Customers strolled lazily through ...
City backs housing for homeless
Aug 05, 2008; Kemmick, Ed ... From its inception two years ago, the Mayor's Committee on Homelessness has been acting on the premise that finding a solution to chronic homelessness is the key to ending homelessness in general. Brenda Beckett, community development director for the city of Billings, said national ...
Council mulls Cabela's project
Aug 05, 2008; Hagengruber, Matt ... Cabela's officials told the City Council on Monday night that if the council approves a development agreement next week, the sporting goods store planned for King Avenue East will be open by June 1, 2009. Construction could start again in three weeks. "We're here today to express ...
Customers looking for savings keep owners busy
Aug 04, 2008; Anonymous ... Maybe the country is sliding into recession, maybe it isn't. All Cory Taggart knows is that he's seeing more customers in his Billings Discount store lately, and that they're buying habits have changed. "I get new people in here every day now," said Taggart, who runs the store at ...
Striving for perfection
Aug 04, 2008; Halstead-Acharya, Linda ... Chris Monson craves creativity, and he's always up for a challenge. That explains why he relishes his work as the service director at Billings' Faith Chapel. "I don't know of anywhere else where I get to do what I do here," he said, smiling. "I really enjoy it." As the ...
Refinery proximity not a big factor in price of gas
Aug 02, 2008; Shay, Becky; Falstad, Jan ... With three major oil refineries in Billings and Laurel, why isn't fuel cheaper here? The answer is complicated. Most of the fuel made in the Billings area is sold on a regional market, and more than half of it is shipped out into that market. The remainder is purchased by wholesale ...
Overblown fears of fire hurt some Red Lodge businesses
Aug 01, 2008; Priddy, Molly ... RED LODGE - The Cascade fire has been burning near Red Lodge for almost a week, and some business owners are beginning to feel the burn. "The town is very, very slow," said Alicia Provost, owner of Dancing Willow gift shop. "The summer is when we have to make our money, or we can't live ...
Oil buyer's bankruptcy puts many in big bind
Aug 01, 2008; Falstad, Jan ... The recent bankruptcy of a Tulsa, Okla, energy trading company that lost more than $2.4 billion speculating on crude-oil prices has forced the shutdown of some oil wells in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota. SEMGroup LP, one of the largest buyers of crude oil from the ...