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This bear really fell for downtown Missoula

A black bear falls into the waiting net of its rescuers after being tranquilized outside an apartment building on East Broadway. KURT WILSON/Missoulian

Congratulations to Missoulian photography editor Kurt Wilson, who reminded us all today of what it takes to come back to the newsroom with great spot news photography: hustle (getting to the right [...]

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Needed: Youth sports photos!

The U10 Missoula Jr. Osprey took first place at the Potlatch Woodbat tournament. Pictured are Drew Leonard, Conner Kessler, Jayce Denman, Rollie Worster, Cody Weaver, Dylan Barkley, Sam Bucy, Kellen Round, Dane Fraser and Wyatt Herbert; bat boys Geno Leonard and Dalton Herbert.

One of the nicest additions to the Missoulian this year has been [...]

Grizzlies in Afghanistan!

A shout-out this afternoon from the Missoulian newsroom to the soldiers of the Montana 230th Vertical Engineer Company, Montana National Guard.

Specialist Kristopher Krause of Missoula sent us this awesome photograph of the soldiers showing their Griz colors atop a mountain in Afghanistan earlier this week.

They’ll be missing out on all the fun of Griz football [...]

Portraits from the county fair

Photograph by LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian

Missoulian photographer Linda Thompson had a confession to make yesterday: She wasn’t so sure she even liked going to the Western Montana Fair when she began a weeklong assignment to shoot portraits of fairgoers.

Now, she’s sweet on the fair. Kind of sentimental about it, in fact. Even a little sappy about [...]

Wilma’s new webcam: Gnarly!

Freestyle kayaking phenom Jason Craig, 16, of Reno, Nev., gets some air during the men’s preliminaries of the U.S. Freestyle Kayaking Championships Wednesday afternoon at Brennan’s Wave in Missoula. Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian

The night shift had the advantage in the newsroom Wednesday afternoon. They moseyed in with smiling faces and suntans, having just spent [...]

The Missoulian’s guide to birds!

Western tanager. Photograph by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian

From Evaro Hill this morning comes a nice note and evidence of a new use for your daily Missoulian: We’re a great guidebook for birders!

Here’s the note:

How cool to see the photo and article of the western tanager on the first page of Missoulian last week … walked down [...]

Coming Thursday: The wild Missoulian

This mama wolverine, known to researchers as F4, is hunting ground squirrels along Glacier National Park’s Highline Trail. She’ll take them back to her two kits, waiting at a rendezvous site some four miles away. Photograph by BILL GARWOOD

And the Missoulian just keeps getting wilder!

Coming Thursday to the Outdoors section of the Missoulian, we’ll [...]

Looking like Missoula, and loving it

Western tanager. Photograph by MICHAEL GALLACHER

Years ago, I was at a journalism workshop where the keynote speaker talked about the importance of a local newspaper looking and sounding like its community.

I remind myself of that imperative every day.

“What does it look and sound and feel like to live in Missoula – in western Montana [...]

Awesome interns I: 'No chickens, no milk cows'

Twin Bridges rancher Niki Martin has worked the land with her husband for the past 46 years. Photography by ADRIENNE BARNETT

I just finished watching four incredible videos – mini-documentaries, really – by Adrienne Barnett, a former Missoulian photography and multimedia intern, and a recent graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism.

In the [...]

Call us! We love our backyard reporters

A white-tailed deer sits in the grass with her three fawns on Friday afternoon after giving birth an hour or two earlier in Ken and Sharee Ballinger’s backyard in the 100 block of Burlington Avenue in Missoula. Sharee Ballinger said the doe, which she had seen in her backyard a week earlier, showed up [...]