Happiest Hour: Melody at the Big Sky taproom ... Montana bar, bartender or beverage to whet your appetite for the weekend. This week, meet Melody Turner from the Big Sky Brewing taproom. Who she is: Melody has worked the taproom at Big Sky since November 2002, slinging samples, filling growlers ... Publ.Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:49:55 GMT Across the Big Sky BILLINGS - A 38-year-old Billings woman has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for her role in a cocaine conspiracy headed by a former Billings Outlaws football player. Publ.Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Benefis Health System Day is Thursday at the fair ... of Hope Survivor programs at Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute. Benefis also is offering $2-off tickets for the Big Sky ProRodeo Roundup that evening. Tickets are available at The Shops at Benefis located on the Benefis East and West campuses, at ... Publ.Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Griz Grit: The Science of Scheduling ... year. But UW wants no part of a home-and-home situation and with their recent, even more moderate success, former Big Sky Conference member Gonzaga also isn't inclined to travel to Missoula without a two- or three-game return guaranteed. Let's face ... Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:38:01 GMT Taiwanese woman drowns in river in Yellowstone ... Tuesday night at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Lin was from Taiwan but was working in Big Sky, Mont., and traveling with friends when the accident occurred. Lin's friends told park rangers she went missing at about ... Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:52:19 GMT Thanks for fund-raiser On behalf of the Yellowstone County Commissioners, MetraPark, United Way and Big Sky Economic Development, I'd like to thank each of the 400 volunteers who gave their time Tuesday [June 22] to clean up the ... read... Thursday, 29 July 2010 What about coal here? We can compare the Gulf oil disaster to mining coal in Eastern Montana. Publ.Date : Thu, 28 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Alliance for Justice Releases Report on Oil-Industry Ties to Fifth... ... oil and gas industries while in private practice. They also attended all-expense-paid "seminars" held at resorts in Big Sky, Montana, and sponsored by the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), whose purpose is to oppose ... Publ.Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:27:19 GMT Setting Sail Under the Big Sky ... logo and the words seem out of place: "Sail Montana." Isn't that like "Deep Sea Dive Kansas?" Montana is known for big sky, not big water, yet in pockets of its vast landscape it harbors active sailing communities. Roaming these communities are ... Publ.Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:53:27 GMT Six from Big Sky named to elite preaseason squad OGDEN, Utah - Six Big Sky Conference players have been selected to the first team of The Sports Network's Football Championship Subdivision Preseason All-America Team, which was released Monday. Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Meet "mini-Baucus" ... ffice window, and the walls are adorned with Larry Zabel paintings of Native Americans and cowboys, and breathtaking Big Sky scenery. You can read more about "mini-Baucus" here . Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:36:51 GMT Lack of funding kills climate project ... blamed for global warming. But without money for construction, Montana's sponsor in the proposal, the six-state Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, is shifting its efforts to another carbon storage project, said partnership director Lee ... Publ.Date : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Montana-Saskatchewan climate project shelved ... blamed for global warming. But without money for construction, Montana's sponsor in the proposal, the six-state Big Sky Carbon Seques-tration Partnership, is shifting its efforts to another carbon storage project, said partnership director Lee ... Publ.Date : Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Across the Big Sky BUTTE - A 28-year-old Butte man who allegedly told women responding to an ad for a nanny that the job's requirements included having sex with him has entered not guilty pleas to prostitution charges. Publ.Date : Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Across the Big Sky BILLINGS - Yellowstone County officials said a body has been recovered from a pond in a Billings cemetery. Publ.Date : Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT 'Sisters' bond in great outdoors ... up with the sisters about a decade ago, when she spotted their caravan of artfully painted trailers just outside of Big Sky, Mont. She said she made a U-turn and caught up with them. "I knew it was a great story," she said. "I didn't know (then) ... Publ.Date : Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:57:33 GMT Arnold Nottingham, Avon native, 1916-2010 ... Mallory and Marlon, both of Grand Junction; four daughters, Janee Roche, of Manhattan, Kan., Elena Nottingham, of Big Sky, Mont., Aleta Nottingham, of Meeker and Cheryl Curl, of Albuquerque, N.M.; sisters Clare Nottingham Lundgren, of Grand Junction ... Publ.Date : Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Cinnabar Foundation opens door to investments ... doled out more than 1,000 grants totaling more than $4.5 million, supporting the wildlife and wildlands beneath the Big Sky. 'It's Montana's own conservation fund,' said Cinnabar's new executive director, Steve Thompson. 'There is no other ... Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Catch the rodeo for five days at this year's fair The Big Sky Pro Rodeo Roundup is an attention-grabber for five days in early August, but it requires much more devotion from a select group behind the scenes. Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Fair features changes to layout, night shows ... all the concerts with times and details.) Don't miss the rodeo, which is always a huge draw to the fair. The PRCA Big Sky ProRodeo Roundup will take place at the fair every night from Aug. 3-7. Tickets are $19 for reserved seats and $12 for general ... Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Coach K lands in Jersey ... the entire 2007-2008 season before getting fired. His career record was 31-69. As a player, Krystkowiak was named Big Sky MVP three times. After getting drafted 28th overall in the 1986 NBA Draft, he played nine seasons with six different teams. I ... Publ.Date : Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:19:40 GMT