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Saying he was addressing “the elephant in the room,” Police Chief Rich St. John told the Billings City Council Monday that the “misdeeds of a few officers should not be a broad-brushed opinion of how the Police Department operates.”

Billings Public School trustees held their first State of the District meeting Monday — a fitting theme for new superintendent Greg Upham, who attended less than a week after signing a contract.

Ballots in school elections are due at the Yellowstone County Elections Office by 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Yellowstone Valley Gives, a two-day effort to raise money for nonprofits in the county, raised more than $148,000 through online fundraising on Friday and Saturday.

Ticket sales for MontanaFair's the three headliners are 253 percent higher than last year’s figure at this time, MetraPark's marketing and sales director told Yellowstone County Commissioners on Monday.

Authorities in Roosevelt County continue to search for a man believed to have drowned after he jumped into the Missouri River near Wolf Point last month in an attempt to save two people struggling in the frigid water.

Former Billings mayor Chuck Tooley has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy in Bozeman, the organization announced Monday.

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The following have been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or a non-narcotic or narcotic drug, or of operating a motor vehicle while having a blood alcohol content above the legal intoxication level:

A sunny, warm start to Monday is expected to give way to scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon in Billings, according to the National Weather Service.