Special Sections

Three-Part Series With Missoula Mayor-Elect John Engen
By Bill Schwanke

The idea of becoming the 50th mayor of Missoula first occurred to John Engen about two years ago - roughly halfway through his term on the Missoula City Council. And it came from several different sources...

Women and Meth Missoulian Special Section

Over the past few years, social service providers and law enforcement have noticed an alarming trend in drug use ö more and more women using methamphetamine. Police see it in the pure numbers of women arrested. Child and family welfare workers...

Lost Boys of the Flathead By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian

Inside this series: On March 1, two 11-year-old boys were found dead in a snowy field on the east side of Ronan. Frankie Nicolai was dead of alcohol poisoning, his blood-alcohol level at 0.5. His friend, Justin Benoist, died of a combination of alcohol consumption and hypothermia. The boys’ deaths stunned the Flathead Reservation...

Two Rivers, Two Choices By the Missoulian

This year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose a cleanup plan for the polluted sediments in Milltown Reservoir. There are, after 20 years of scrutiny and debate, two choices: Milltown Dam and its reservoir sediments in place, managed forevermore. Or remove the sediments and then the dam. This Missoulian special report looks at Milltown, its dam and reservoir, and the Superfund cleanup options.

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