Crime

The Montana Department of Justice has excellent online tools for you to stay informed about all registered sexual and/or violent offenders living in Montana towns, big and small. This Sexual and Violent Offender Registry (SVOR) will display in map form, or you can look up very specific neighborhoods.

Driving in Bozeman has certainly become less relaxed than it used to be, but I'm begging all of us - start paying attention to school speed zones. There is an insane lack of awareness and safety in Bozeman's school zones. As in, nobody seems to give a damn.

Watch out for a new email scam targeting Montana residents, falsely claiming to be from the Department of Transportation about a traffic violation.

You may be breaking the law and not even realize it. But it's serious enough in Montana that if you don't take action, you WILL be getting a visit from the Sheriff's Office. Trust me. I know.

With growth in the Bozeman area, and increase in crime follows, right? It's typically how it goes when towns 'boom', the growing pains of theft, vandalism, drugs, and other illegal activity are suddenly front and center.

Bozeman will never agree on fireworks, and it has always been this way. Whether they were "allowed" or not, people love them or hate them. We've discussed it many times. This year with a clear fireworks ban from the City of Bozeman, some residents are really not thrilled and they have thoughts.

The calf had been separated from its mother when the herd crossed the Lamar River. As the calf struggled, the man pushed the calf up from the river and onto the roadway.

I'm not referring to the ubiquitous Swiss Army multi-tool, but most of us have one of those too.

Montana, and the rest of the country, is freaking out about this Chinese spy balloon that's been hovering overhead for the last few days. Rightfully so. No matter your political stance, everyone wants to know 'where is the Chinese spy balloon now' and 'did the US shoot down the Chinese spy balloon?'.

We're barely a month into 2023 and the Montana Missing Persons database has 20 more names in it - many of them are teenage girls. Only two of the recently reported missing are over the age of 21.