Love of flying a lifelong pursuit for Mike Wallace
Even as a kid, Mike Wallace preferred to be looking down on the earth rather than walking on its surface.

What's happening Monday

Butte jury convicts meth ring associate

Anti-meth effort gets backing
POLSON — Three Polson women, one of them a former methamphetamine addict, have responded in their own small way to a challenge by the founder of the Montana Meth Project to help raise $8 million to keep the graphic media campaign alive.

Crews clear Beartooth

Remains found near Missoula

What's on tap today in local sports
Helena High and Helena Capital vs. Butte Central (TBA)

Cubs split with Mavs

New look for Tech’s womens basketball team

Activists wage war on Wal-Mart
WASHINGTON — There is no candidate. There are no ballots. There won’t be an Election Day. And yet it may be the hottest, highest-stakes political contest in America today.

Sailors get Army training

Retail gasoline prices continue to rise

All in a day’s chase

Oil boom

Debate grows over using Benadryl to calm children

Rest easy, pigeons not a bird flu threat

Sweet potato the soul of this soup

Monday Matters: Yoga and the plague
It sounds ghoulish, but some investment professionals are thinking about what might happen to the stock market if avian flu suddenly became easily transmissible from human to human. In short, it would be a bummer. Ruin your whole day.

Race only fuels a story that is all too common

Much ado about muckraking

Supertag gives some hunters chance for dream hunt
The pick of anywhere in the state to hunt for a trophy bighorn sheep ram, bull moose or elk is many hunter’s dream.

Deer Lodge ranch hosts bird walks

Whitehall-area closures debated

Ice Parade graces Civic Center ice April 21-23
By the Standard Staff The Butte Figure Skating Club presents Ice Parade 2006 — titled “Americana” — Friday and Saturday, April 21-22, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 23, at 2 p.m. in the Butte Civic Center.