Lolo Pass

The National Weather Service is expecting between two and three feet of new snow to fall on the mountain passes between Friday night and next Tuesday and from four to six inches in the Missoula valley.

After the snow that fell overnight in western Montana, a Winter Weather Advisory was issued for roads in the area, including the mountain passes.

Scott Price and Sarah McKnight were sentenced in Missoula District Court yesterday for the stabbing death of Lonnette Keehner at the Super 8 Motel last December. Price was sentenced to life without parole, while McKnight won't be eligible for parole for 60 years.

The National Weather Service is reporting that several bands of snow are headed towards the mountain passes and valleys of western Montana.

Update 5:00 p.m. Monday, July 28 - Clearwater County Sheriff Chris Goetz said the plane that crashed near Lolo Pass was a single engine Lance Air two-seat aircraft. Information received by Goetz's office indicates the pilot was flying from Richland, Washington to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for an Experimental Aircraft Association convention when the crash occurred.

Update: 11:30 a.m., February 13 - After being closed for less than 24 hours for avalanche danger, the Idaho side of U.S. Highway 12 has been reopened as of 11:15 Thursday morning.

The megaload of oil refinery equipment headed for the tar sands of Canada is traveling through Oregon and will soon arrive in Idaho, however, no permit has yet been issued for the shipment to cross through Montana.

The roads may be clear now, but forecasters are expecting some extreme weather for travelers in Western Montana this Thanksgiving weekend.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Watch for Missoula and the Bitterroot, starting Friday night, November 15, and continuing through Sunday, November 17.

Starting at around 3 a.m. on Thursday morning, August 22, the Ought-7 fire spread to 300 acres over fine fuels along U.S. Highway 12.