Mike Smith
Government and Politics Reporter
- Bio
Mike Smith is a reporter at the Montana Standard with an emphasis on government and politics.
For more than a century, Butte — even with all its mining and the pollution it left behind — has had some of the best drinking water in all of…
Commissioners have given a final OK to closing off a block of Wyoming Street in Uptown Butte and turning it into a plaza and green space if th…
James Wayne Phillips Jr., with his attorney, Jessica Polan, next to him at the Butte jail, listens Wednesday as a judge sentences him to five …
Jeremiah Williams, in sweatshirt, appears in District Court in Butte on Thursday with his attorney, Josh Demers. He was given a six-year defer…
A 23-year-old Butte man initially charged with raping a 15-year-old girl will avoid prison time on a lesser conviction if he abides by probati…
A woman who was assaulted by her own son begged a judge not to send him to prison, crying and saying he was a “very good kid who just needs to…
A judge sentenced a Butte woman to 10 years in prison Wednesday for wreaking havoc in the Big M parking lot in 2019, smashing into cars with h…
Athena Smith, right, appears via video from the Butte jail Wednesday to be sentenced in a 2017 theft case and more serious assault and endange…
Three seniors at Butte High School won first place in a Business Professionals of America Shark Tank competition for creating an LED system th…
A team of Butte High seniors pictured here won first place in a recent shark tank competition at a Business Professionals of America conferenc…