LAME DEER, MT - The Eagle Creek fire burning south of Lame Deer is now 75 percent contained. The 4,150 acre blaze is burning in the Black Eagle Creek Drainage. Lower temperatures and cloud cover helped to reduce internal heat, according to the Northern Rockies Type-II Incident Management Team. Stage... more »
CROW AGENCY- A Crow home burned early Friday morning along U.S. Highway 212 as the west side of the Sarpy Hills complex ran south in strong overnight winds. The trailer home sat about 11 miles east of Crow Agency.
Fire officials report that as of 8:30 a.m., the blaze... more »
BILLINGS - A Lame Deer School is one of only eight in the nation to take part in a program to test - if arts education can boost academic achievement. The director of Turnaround Arts, developed by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, was in Billings Wednesday... more »
UPDATE: The Waterhole fire is within a quarter mile of Lame Deer. Highway 212 is closed at the county line west of town.
Anyone evacuating form the Lame Deer fire please check in at the Lame Deer High School. They want to make sure everyone is accounted for. The... more »
LAME DEER - USDA Rural Development will join Northern Cheyenne Tribal President Leroy Spang next week to officially break ground on a water project to provide potable water service to a neighborhood just west of Lame Deer. When it's complete, the project will provide fresh water from the existing Lame... more »
LAME DEER, MT - The federal government would give an estimated 145 million tons of publicly owned coal to a Texas company under an exchange backed by members of Congress that calls for future royalties and other coal reserves to go to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. The exchange is meant... more »
The Montana Highway Patrol responded to a fatal accident in Lame Deer Tuesday night.
MHP tells Q2 News the accident happened at U.S. Highway 212 and mile marker 41. The call came in just after 6:00 p.m. Tuesday night. We'll bring you more information on this accident as it... more »