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BOX ELDER - Northern Winz Casino has closed its doors for at least a week to clean up a massive flood caused by a faulty pipe that recently froze and broke.

HAVRE - The developer of the $500 million Glacier Wind Farm project will be a featured speaker at the Opportunity Link Inc.

BILLINGS - Demand for No. 1 diesel, the kind that still flows at minus-20 degrees and cooler, surged in December as extremely cold temperatures socked Montana and the region.

BILLINGS - Arraignment is scheduled Monday in Billings for a seven-time drunken driving offender now facing another charge for that crime.

BOZEMAN - A man has pleaded guilty to leaving a bomb threat on telephone voicemail at the Yellowstone Club, a southwestern Montana getaway for the wealthy.

KALISPELL - An 18-year-old man died at the scene of a two-vehicle crash in northwestern Montana.

BILLINGS - A Lodge Grass couple that has parented more than 90 foster children will be getting a big, new house thanks to some volunteers.

MALTA - The Malta School Board has voted to expel a 16-year-old male charged with leaving written bomb threats in a school bathroom in November.

Richard Woods anchored himself in a Chicago library to read obituaries published years ago in the newspaper that covered life and death in the remote slice of Montana where he grew up.

A Browningman received a generous gift on Christmas Eve when he won the $182,000 Wild Card jackpot from the Montana Lottery.

BROWNING - Six Blackfeet tribal members were inducted into the Montana Indian Athlete Hall of Fame earlier this month.

Normally the word "lift" used in conjunction with Big Sky would mean a seated ride up the mountain in the winter.

MISSOULA - A 46-year-old homeless man who was shot to death by Missoula police has been identified as Gregory R. Ramsey.

Residents of the Big Sky area are donating money to help neighbors who are struggling with the economic downturn.

BOX ELDER - Chippewa Cree Law and Order will be conducting check points starting today through Jan.

BILLINGS - Federal marshals have arrested a Texas man accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 90 in Billings and causing a crash that killed a man and woman from Missoula.

HELENA - Members of the Montana Stockgrowers Association have elected Melstone rancher Tom Hougen president.

BOZEMAN - Yellowstone National Park is one of the landmarks to be featured on an express mail stamp beginning next month.

HELENA - The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are scheduled to participate in an air show in Helena in June.

As the temperatures dip and the snow accumulates outside, we all crank up the thermostat and add another log to the fire.