When Sarina Eckman's son began attending Boulder Elementary School, she had a unique insider perspective on her child's education that most parents lack: She was the school secretary. Now, five months into a new job as the school's first-ever family engagement facilitator, Eckman is on a mis… Read Article

Jefferson High School’s $12.5 million bond issue, geared to fund long-anticipated expansion and improvements at the school, quickly sold out to institutional investors on Jan. 13, clearing the way for the district’s completion of the issue Feb. 1 and, then, the project’s launch. Read Article

The city of Boulder plans to retain ownership of the building it purchased and relocated from north of Helena to Boulder last year with the goal of providing a facility for affordable child care, and the city now has a draft plan for how it hopes to manage building maintenance and costs depe… Read Article

After a dry fall and a slow start to snow accumulation in the mountains around Boulder and Jefferson County—and remarkably severe and widespread drought conditions in 2021—the current snowpack in the area is about normal for this point in winter, although the water content of snow in the Elk… Read Article

The 80-foot-tall-sign above the Boulder Town Pump along Interstate 15 will remain as the gas station expands, and it will receive a new sign face, after a zoning ordinance variance for the sign was approved by the Boulder Board of Adjustments on Jan. 5. But the board was unsure how to handle… Read Article

Gretchen George knows Boulder well. She grew up in town and she now lives "over the hill" in Clancy—and she knows that Boulder has an acute need for licensed child care. Since Jan. 3, she's been helping to meet that need, overseeing the opening of the new Nature Story Montessori at Boulder U… Read Article

In April, Jefferson County learned it would receive nearly $2.4 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), federal legislation aimed at repairing the damage done to communities by the coronavirus pandemic. Read Article

Editor's note: Because of incorrect information on Bloom dispensary's website, a previous version of this story stated the wrong street address for the Bloom location in Boulder. The story has been updated to reflect the correct address. Read Article

One year after thousands of supporters of then President Donald J. Trump launched a violent and deadly insurrection against Congress at the U.S. Capitol with the goal of overturning the result of the 2020 presidential election, a much smaller crowd gathered in Boulder's Veterans Park for a m… Read Article

At the stroke of noon on Dec. 30, the temperature in Boulder was a brisk 19 degrees. No matter: 14 residents aged 12 to over 80 layered up to join in the Jefferson County Health Department’s first annual winter wellness event. Read Article

In the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 16, a massive haul truck inched into Boulder carrying a 70-foot-long building. Crews steered the structure off Main Street at the L&P Grocery, then down Monroe Street for a few blocks before turning onto West Fourth Avenue and settling, around 6 a.m., behind… Read Article

The Jefferson County Commission moved to donate $5,000 from the county’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) fund to recovery efforts in Denton following a fire that devastated the central Montana town in early December. Read Article

Before Boulder Mayor Russell “Rusty” Giulio, President Drew Dawson, and new member Patricia “Pat” Lewis were sworn into the Boulder City Council Dec. 20, the existing council spent most of the meeting discussing changes to the city’s five-year-old Employee Policy Manual. Read Article

There's a new building in town, but it didn't pop up the way most do, built in place from the ground up. Instead, this one was towed into town on a truck, traveling to Boulder from north of Helena in the early morning hours of Dec. 16.  Read Article

The Bureau of Land Management will study a proposal to vastly expand a Cardwell-based outfitter's permitted hunting area in the southern Elkhorn Mountains and around Bull Mountain after the agency's original plan to consider the proposal without studying its impacts drew criticism from local… Read Article

Hardware Hank, the longtime hardware store and historic mercantile on Boulder's Main Street, is for sale—and the building and property are part of the deal.  Read Article

Longtime Jefferson County Commissioner Leonard Wortman, the current County Commission chair, will not seek reelection in 2022, ending a more than decade-long run that wasn't his first stint representing the county's south end on the commission. Read Article

A woman sporting a ponytail gets ready to board her flight when she is stopped by a flight attendant. The attendant asks her why she has an elephant with her. She tells him it is her emotional support animal. Read Article

The seniors who run the Boulder-Basin Senior Center in Boulder—volunteers who took the helm of the local nonprofit and its facility from the generation ahead of them—worry that there will be no one for them to hand the organization to when it's time for them to step back, and that they may s… Read Article

The owner of the Montana Tunnels mine will keep the mine property after a new company he formed paid $5.1 million in overdue property taxes just days before a Dec. 2 deadline, preventing Jefferson County from seizing the mine through a tax deed.  Read Article

Starting today, donors of $20 or more to Animal Shelter and Care of Jefferson County will receive a portrait of their pet in return for their generosity—and the art is intentionally less than purrfect.  Read Article

The annual Boulder Community Christmas Potluck Dinner wants your side dishes, and your toy donations.  Read Article

In an effort to recruit more volunteers to its Ambulance Service, the city of Boulder is covering most of participants' costs to take an upcoming emergency medical technician course scheduled to start in January, and the city will reimburse the remaining costs for participants who go on to v… Read Article

The root cause of Montana's increasingly stifling housing market? Too few homes to go around, a researcher told a legislative committee studying the state's economic condition Monday.  Read Article

Ranchers looking to feed their cattle through winter—and themselves for the evening—can do both at a Montana State University Extension Rancher Roundtable in Boulder next week.  Read Article

For the first time in more than 40 years, Boulder's longtime bowling alley and bar—an institution in the town for decades—is no longer named Phil & Tim's. And though he'll still be a fixture in the establishment, Tim Yanzick is no longer the owner.  Read Article

Leaders of Montana’s K–12 and higher education systems convened on the University of Montana campus Friday to discuss strategic goals and ongoing challenges to improve the quality of education for students across the state. Read Article

Jefferson County will spend $115,719 in pandemic relief funds on kickstarting the planned Western Legacy Center in Whitehall to help achieve a targeted spring 2022 opening. Read Article

Reports and budgeting exercises commissioned to determine the viability of redeveloping the south campus of the former Montana Developmental Center found that high costs associated with renovating two historic buildings on the site would likely preclude efforts to profitably rent them out or… Read Article

Jefferson High School Theater is back for a full season of outstanding plays.  Read Article

The Boulder Ambulance Service is poised to get a new ambulance and other equipment, paid for with grants the service was recently awarded. But the service is struggling to recruit volunteers—and while city officials have applauded its grant-writing efforts, they have also sparred with Ambula… Read Article

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality says it will not seek ownership of the defunct Montana Tunnels mine, which Jefferson County recently moved to acquire through a tax deed on more than a decade of unpaid property taxes, and which county officials worried could be subject to comp… Read Article