Dillon and Beaverhead County are seeing more visitors and more new or expanding businesses.

Mike Smith
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Mike Smith is a reporter at the Montana Standard with an emphasis on government and politics.Mounting frustrations over abandoned, crime-ridden houses in Butte are drawing responses and pledges from county officials.
A man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a house in Butte 10 to 12 years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Benjamin DeWeert, left, is led into the courtroom by his attorney, Jeff Dahood, where he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old g…
NBC’s “Dateline” will air a two-hour show Friday night that looks at the fatal shooting of Broadwater County Sheriff’s Deputy Mason Moore in 2017.
A California company that makes modular homes plans to build an $80 million, 450,000 square-foot facility that could employ up to 150 employees the first year.
Sean Michael Kelledy appears for a sentencing hearing in court Thursday.
A judge gave a Butte police officer a one-year deferred sentence for assaulting a family member in early 2022.
A Butte man was sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison on Thursday for faking medical documents to get out of a court hearing.