This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies of interest to preppers and survivalists that are located in the American Redoubt region. Today, we focus on winter weather and weather-related car crashes.
Region-Wide
Feds begin process of considering restoration of grizzlies in Bitterroot ecosystem.
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Air Force to host ‘Sentinel’ public meetings in Lewistown and Great Falls. A pericope:
“The U.S. Air Force will host town hall meetings in Lewistown and Great Falls next week to provide people with information about the Sentinel Program. The Air Force is modernizing the existing Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile systems with the new Sentinel Program.
This will include modernization of launch facilities, control centers, and other ground infrastructure across the 13,800 square mile missile complex of Malmstrom Air Force base.
The project includes the renovation of existing missile launch facilities, the construction of two dozen new missile alert facilities, and 62 new communication towers within the missile fields overseen by Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, and F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.”
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Man accused of killing woman, living with body in Idaho Falls for 3 weeks.
Idaho
Snow plow driver hospitalized after crash on I-84.
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Idaho’s December unemployment rate remains at 3.3%.
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2023 was the deadliest year on Idaho roads in two decades.
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Judge denies Chad Daybell’s attorney to withdraw from case, may have to serve without pay.
Montana
Flathead Valley residents trying to dig out following snowstorm.
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‘Very dangerous’ avalanche conditions in west-central Montana.
Central & Eastern Oregon
Several roads closed in Pendleton due to heavy snow.
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Parts of Umatilla County likely to see record temperatures.
Central & Eastern Washington
Over 100 crashes reported from Yakima to Walla Walla in recent snowfall.
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More than 100 crashes in the Spokane region after Wednesday’s snowstorm.
Wyoming
Pierce Brosnan pleads not guilty to walking in thermal areas at Yellowstone National Park. A quote from the article:
“Actor Pierce Brosnan pleaded not guilty earlier this month to walking in thermal areas of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in December, a court document obtained by CNN on Wednesday shows.
Brosnan entered his plea through his attorneys on January 4 in lieu of having to appear at the Yellowstone Justice Center later this month, according to the document.
CNN has reached out to Brosnan’s representatives and attorneys for comment.
A status conference hearing on the matter is set for February 20 at the Yellowstone Justice Center.
The 70-year-old actor was cited on December 26 for “foot travel in all thermal areas and w/in Yellowstone Canyon confined to trails … and Violating closures and use limits,” CNN previously reported. The charges were listed as petty offenses.”
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Greybull museum merger plans world-class dinosaur exhibition with local finds.
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