Mike Smith
Government and Politics Reporter
- Bio
Mike Smith is a reporter at the Montana Standard with an emphasis on government and politics.
- Home town
Butte
In the midst of one of the biggest “outta sight, outta mind” places in Butte-Silver Bow County, there’s a deep, $2 million hole that’s impossi…
Glen Rafish, who oversees solid waste management for Butte-Silver Bow, stands atop a 12-acre hole that will take in household garbage from But…
Editor's note: The civil suit filing and documents connected to this case may be read on mtstandard.com.
Butte’s Uptown parking garage has been light on cars since the coronavirus hit, but it has become a hot-spot hang-out for some youngsters in B…
Thanks to a mild winter and no big setbacks — not yet, anyway — Butte-Silver Bow’s new $14 million vehicle and maintenance shops have taken sh…
A Butte man who has repeatedly violated sentencing terms for negligent homicide in a 2013 car crash had his latest sentence revoked Thursday a…
A Butte man behind an active-shooter ordeal in Uptown Butte pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping, assault with a weapon and criminal endanger…
Travis Hunter, center, is joined by pubic defenders Walter Hennessey and Kaitlyn Lamp during a plea hearing in District Court in Butte on Thursday.
Ramsay residents aren’t giving up their fight to prevent Love’s Travel Stops from locating a sprawling truck stop complex next to their quiet,…
A five-member board has been established that will decide how tax revenue potentially in the millions of dollars is spent on infrastructure an…