Missoula

It was the last of the great Missoula-area train robberies. Dynamite (and lots of it) was used.

A Montana bank founded in 1953 by a rancher in Miles City has since grown to serve the state, and this month it's celebrating 70 years of business.

Development interest in a number of properties owned by the City of Missoula is high, and officials believe activity could begin within the coming year on some of them.

William Munoz writes, "The Counting Crows have succeeded to be a 'good' band, one that Robbie Robertson recognized all those years ago."

A pilot program that looks to boost the construction of workforce housing and direct revenue into the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund was approved by the Missoula Redevelopment Agency's board of commissioners on Thursday.

Richard Manning writes, "At the very least, the lands’ management needs to be forcibly amputated from the parks department and entrusted to a separate, stand-alone entity run by restoration ecologists."

Missoula County this week approved a $900,000 contribution to help fund the operation and management of the Johnson Street shelter through next October, when the money runs out.

The new budgets adopted by the city and county of Missoula include funding to begin remediation work on the old federal building, along with money to cover operating costs over the next year.

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The Missoula Fire Department extinguished a structure fire in a shuttered house frequented by the homeless on Saturday afternoon just before 1 p.m.