Gallatin County

Some parts of southern Montana may get up to 10 fresh inches of snow this weekend. Southern Gallatin County, the Beartooth Foothills and the Red Lodge areas should be the winners of the end-of-season storm.

Crews responded to a commercial structure fire in downtown Belgrade on Friday morning.

It's becoming a broken record: another day, another several hundred cases of COVID-19 in Gallatin County. Of the 1,831 new cases in Montana, 503 of them are in Gallatin County.

As of Tuesday, nearly 40% of all new positive COVID-19 cases in Montana were in Gallatin County. There are 408 active cases with 159 new cases recorded according to the State of Montana COVID-19 dashboard.

Southern mountains of Gallatin, Madison and Beaverhead Counties may get up to a foot of fresh snow by Tuesday morning. Gusty winds up to 60 mph are also possible, creating difficult travel conditions over mountain passes.

That DOES NOT include the $585 City of Bozeman Special Assessment bill I just paid, by the way. This is the ONE brief time of year that I despise living here. Let's take a look at what the hell is on this Gallatin County tax bill, shall we?

At least we're ahead of Alabama and West Virginia. While some Montanans are scrambling for their COVID-19 booster shot, so many have clearly indicated they're not interested in any shot at all.

Here's an update on the Shedhorn Fire located between Big Sky and West Yellowstone.

Out of Montana's 1,144 new cases of COVID-19, Gallatin County had 176 of them...the highest number of new cases in the state as of Thursday morning's update.

The numbers are just that. Numbers. But Montana's current 10% hospitalization rate is concerning. Here is the latest data at a glance per the State of Montana COVID-19 dashboard:

On Sunday afternoon (7/11) a person on a horse became injured and required assistance to get back to the trailhead. Gallatin County Search & Rescue responded and got the injured person to safety.

There's a backdoor banger on the loose in Manhattan.