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As of Wednesday afternoon, Missoula air quality is once again officially unhealthy for sensitive groups. Air Quality Specialist with the Missoula City County Health Department Sara Coefield says the large plumes of smoke from fires burning to the southwest are rising high into the atmosphere where prevailing winds are depositing them right into the Bitterroot and Missoula valleys...

Deputy Missoula County Attorney Shaun Donovan says former Grizzly football player Beau Donaldson will accept a plea agreement with the Missoula County Prosecutor’s office of guilty to sexual intercourse without consent.

Low relative humidity and a strong breeze pushed a wildland fire from a quarter acre to 75 acres in a matter of hours on Sunday evening. Missoula’s fire danger is “Extreme” and this rapid fire growth is a result of these conditions.

With the end of summer, many of the more experienced wildland firefighters have headed back home or back to school.

After a night and a morning of clear skies, smoke from fires burning in the Bitterroot area and the Mustang Complex near the Idaho-Montana border, air in the Bitterroot and Missoula valleys is once again unhealthy to breathe.

So, you can’t make it to the Grizzly football game on Saturday, and you’d like to watch it on TV.

More than 70 law enforcement officers and criminal justice professionals from around western Montana will receive sexual assault response training Monday and Tuesday.

A cash bag in the Baskin-Robbins booth at the Western Montana Fair was stolen late Wednesday night. Missoula Police Detective Sergeant Travis Welsh says the attendant had left the bag inside the booth for a short time, and when he returned it was gone.

Wednesday evening’s lightning storm sparked several wildfires throughout western Montana. Fire Information Officer for the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Paula Short said Thursday morning that fires were burning from the Florence area all the way to Beavertail Hill.

Attorneys representing suspended Montana Grizzly quarterback Jordan Johnson have made their motion for dismissal public.

In Missoula District Court Tuesday morning, now former University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of sexual intercourse without consent. One of Johnson’s defense attorney’s, Kirsten Pabst said she would be filing a motion to dismiss the charges.

A 37 year-old Missoula man was taken into custody on Saturday at Splash Montana after he was caught allegedly videotaping adult women in the family changing area. Lieutenant Scott Brodie with the Missoula Police Department says the as yet unidentified man was in the handicapped restroom stall while he reached over the top to videotape the women.