Michael Gallacher
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Lady Griz celebrate come-from-behind victory in Big Sky championship
Montana Lady Griz teammates, Maggie Rickman, Mekayla Isaak, Kellie Rubel and Kayleigh Valley, from left, celebrate their heroic, come-from-behind victory to win the Big Sky Conference Championship against Northern Colorado Saturday afternoon at Dahlberg Arena. → Read More
UM cook-off rolls out cookie dough for Missoula nonprofits
Taylor Cook, 7, gets help with her rolling-pin technique from her grandmother Kay Woodworth as the two roll out cookie dough during the 17th annual Great UM Christmas Cookie Cook-off → Read More
Piles of leaves bring play for Missoula 4-year-old
Asher Goodkind, 4, plays with the leaves in front of his Woodworth Avenue home in Missoula on Monday afternoon. → Read More
Buddy system gets University of Montana students home
University of Montana students Chance Hotsinpiller, left, and Will Schroeder employ the buddy system as they head home from classes Monday afternoon in Missoula. → Read More
Arugula goes from garden to lunch at Missoula's Meadow Hill Middle School
Most of Kim Olsen’s seventh-grade Spanish class at Meadow Hill Middle School had never tasted arugula until they picked the savory greens they have growing in cold frames just south → Read More
Zero-emissions electric bus makes stop in Missoula
Dale Hill, founder of the Proterra zero-emissions bus company, not only came up with the concept of his electric bus, but also drives it on promotional tours around the country. → Read More
ROTC drills kick off on UM campus
University of Montana Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets Steven Kalfman, left, and Derek Alford practice their first training drills of the fall Thursday afternoon at the River Bowl on the → Read More
A float for a bachelor
Don DeArmoun is fed a cool beverage by his friend Caleb Kasper shortly after embarking on a bachelor party float from the Spurgin Road fishing access to the Kona Bridge → Read More
D is for Darby: Fire solidifies town's turn from timber to tourism
DARBY – Cal Ruark has hidden a sign under the Darby Rodeo Grounds band stage eave that only the performers can see. It reads “Picture them naked.” → Read More
Gathering storm approaches Missoula
Thunder clouds gather over Mount Sentinel on Thursday afternoon as a cold front moves into western Montana from Canada. According to the National Weather Service, the cold front will also → Read More
Paul Bunyan on the case
“That’s Paul. Paul Bunyan,” said Bob Evans, left, of his friend and fellow sawyer Glenn Reynolds. Reynolds spent the morning last Friday limbing out a 90-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce in → Read More
Western Montana Fair gets underway with rabbit judging, miniature horse showing
Lindy Kolb, right, answers questions from American Rabbit Breeder Association judge Cathy Hill about her Netherland dwarf rabbit Tuesday afternoon in the first round of the senior rabbit judging at → Read More
Cool ride on a hot day on Missoula's South Avenue
It’s not often you see a Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine cruising down South Avenue in Missoula on a 90-degree July day. “I took it down to Kidsfest in Caras Park,” says → Read More
Son shade: A mother's comfort after a nap
Prepared for sun or rain, Amber Kosted comforts her son Evo after he woke from a short nap in downtown Missoula recently. → Read More
Celebration to mark launch of East Missoula park improvements
For sisters Edie, left, and Simone Fielding, the Spacenet rope climbing station may be their favorite addition to the recently upgraded Lions Club County Park in East Missoula. A play → Read More
Birds on a wire, waiting out rain in Missoula
Swallows wait out the rain Monday morning on a fenceline on Rimel Road. → Read More
Kids fill their baskets at UM's annual Easter Eggstravaganza
If you’re not in the hunt, get out of the way as children ages 9 and younger flock to the University of Montana Oval on Saturday afternoon for the 14th → Read More
Blackbird landing in Missoula cattail stand
A male red-winged blackbird glides to a landing in a cattail stand at the Bancroft Street wetlands Wednesday morning in Missoula. The raspy call of the red-winged blackbird can be → Read More
Sculptor of wood: Huson furniture maker crafts functional fine art
HUSON – Shane Hughes stood at the work table, a spokeshave in his hands, a curved piece of walnut clamped in front of him. → Read More
UM students earn credit pruning on PEAS Farm
Jonathan Carvella, left, and a crew of University of Montana students are working at the PEAS Farm in Missoula this spring pruning fruit trees and preparing the farm for spring → Read More