Jan Falstad
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St. V’s continues expansion by buying up 2 more private practices
One year after buying Frontier Cancer Center, St. Vincent Healthcare has purchased two more private practices in Billings — the Montana Heart Institute and Big Sky OB/GYN. → Read More
Lucky's crowds cut sales at some other natural-food stores
After opening 45 grocery stores during his career, Mike Phillips has the experience to judge a successful opening. → Read More
9 Burger Kings in Montana have a new owner
Meridian Restaurants of Ogden, Utah, has purchased nine Montana Burger King restaurants in a deal that closed Monday morning. → Read More
Vet gives horses a second life with artificial limbs
Amputating a horse’s leg and replacing it with a prosthetic is expensive and, even if successful, leaves a horse unable to be worked or ridden again. → Read More
Customers already checking out Lucky's; grand opening is Wednesday
Maybe it was the 88-cent special for a basket of strawberries. → Read More
Local gas prices keep rising
After months of enjoying some of the lowest gasoline prices in the nation, Billings-area drivers are paying 20.6 cents per gallon more than one month ago. → Read More
Have you heard?: Something fishy on West End
Work will begin this week to install a giant aquarium at the Scheels store at Shiloh Crossing. → Read More
West End rental units booming again in Billings
During the last recession, almost no one was building apartments in Billings. But, over the last three years, construction of rental housing has really taken off. → Read More
Billings chef wins prize, money at Miami’s 'Super Bowl of food'
A burger born at The Burger Dive in downtown Billings won one of three top awards recently at the national Burger Bash cook-off in Miami. → Read More
Living on the edge: Businessman still practices Finnish art of knife sharpening, makes house calls
His body no longer sports the 23-inch neck, 36-inch thighs and 18-inch forearms needed to squat lift 750 pounds. That’s when his dreams were focused on making the U.S. Olympic → Read More
Online reviews put local restaurants on the national map, but negative postings can cause indigestion, too
Ben and Krystal Harman, who opened The Fieldhouse Café in Billings two years ago, welcome the positive reviews they’re getting on social media sites like Yelp, Facebook, Google, TripAdvisor and → Read More
Diving into the Burger Bash
A single email last year landed Brad Halsten, who cooks at the Burger Dive, a chance of a lifetime. → Read More
End of federal benefits puts pinch on long-term unemployed
While waiting to hear about a job interview she felt went “really well,” Tina Sticka surfs the Internet for other jobs. Since being laid off from her "dream job" last → Read More
Big game fuels fever for new televisions
Chips? Check. Dip, beer, buffalo wings, pizza, nachos with cheese and chocolate brownies? Check. → Read More
St. John's expands to the Heights with new senior living complex
After a four years of planning, site work should begin this summer on a Billings Heights facility for active seniors. → Read More
Good Earth Market changes management
Former Good Earth Market general manager Perry McNeese talks first about personal relationships, not balance sheets, in describing his 37-year career managing food stores. → Read More
Conservationists seek judge to overturn drilling permit granted without public hearing
Conservation groups that have lined up against oil extraction along southern Montana's Beartooth mountains sued a state oversight board on Wednesday after it approved an initial drilling permit without a → Read More
Library patrons get what they asked for: A cafe
Skateboards are still taboo. But patrons of the Billings Public Library that opened on Monday can eat and drink, within reason, in the modernistic building. → Read More
Have you heard?: 'Scrape-and-build' bull’s eye placed on old JBs location
By fall, JBs Restaurant at 910 Grand Ave., may become a big Starbucks with a separate restaurant next door. → Read More
Show up early if you're flying out of Billings
Last summer, Assistant Aviation Director Kevin Ploehn was praying it wouldn’t rain during the several weekends the airport was shut down for work on the main runway. → Read More