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REDDING, Calif. - Battling high gas prices these days, if you're a cowboy embarking on a 30-hour drive to one rodeo, you're going to have to make it pay off. Miles City tie-down roper Haven Meged did just that Friday at the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo. Meged, traveling with Quade Hiatt,...

Hundreds of cowboys are in Miles City for the Bucking Horse sale and that means Steve Moran’s leather shop on Main Street will be busy. Because of the pandemic, he’s learned a new craft making boots.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Houston Brown is no stranger to the World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale Matched Xtreme Bronc Ride. In fact, his hometown is Miles City, and the saddle bronc rider grew up attending the bronc match nearly every year. Now, his name will forever be etched in the record books after he captured the event title, May 22. He said the win in his hometown is a dream come true.

A Bucking Horse Sale Tribute to Bill Harding & Lavetta Weeding. It had been a beautiful weekend. Temperatures in the mid 70s for the third weekend in May had a way of putting smiles on faces. The smell of dust, liquor and sweaty horses filled the air that hung upon the eastern Montana fairgrounds. The 2021 World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse sale shattered the previous ticket sales record. After a cancellation in 2020 due to COVID-19, spirits were high at the “Cowboy Mardi Gras.” Old friends were reunited, and stories were told as attendees seemed eager to push past the doom and gloom of 2020. As the final checks were handed out and the last horses loaded onto the trailers, Bill Harding jokingly told his longtime friend Lavetta Weeding, “I think it’s time that we both retire, we’re getting too old for this.”

When you think of the best wine regions in the world, your mind might wander to Tuscany, Bordeaux or Napa. With passion and the fruits of labor, one Miles City wine maker is determined to add Montana to that list of wine greats.

Another chilly start tomorrow. Billings, Miles City, and Sheridan, Wyoming have another shot of potentially breaking record lows. Frost or freeze is possible, so make sure to protect outdoor plants and flowers.

MILES CITY — There’s plenty of money to be won this weekend at the Bucking Horse Sale. How about this – $50,000 up for grabs in Miles City. “The match bronc riding last year was in a class by itself. I’ve been to rodeos all over America, nothing like it. They couldn’t touch it. Horses bucked, it was weather like today, sunny, crowd was packed, Calcutta was phenomenal," said Craig Miller, VP of the board of directors.

Hundreds of cowboys are in Miles City for the Bucking Horse sale and that means Steve Moran’s leather shop on Main Street will be busy. Because of the pandemic, he’s learned a new craft making boots.

In the democratic primary for Montana eastern congressional district the candidates are an advocate against human trafficking, a rookie progressive and an unpicked stand in for state Sen. Mark Sweeney, who died in early May.

MILES CITY — Payton Kokot, a 6-foot-3 guard from Livingston, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Miles Community College, the school announced Wednesday. The Park High School standout was a Class A all-state selection his senior year when he averaged 20 points per game. He shot 45% from the field, 40% from 3-point range, and 81% from the free throw line.

MILES CITY- Something special is brewing with the softball program at Miles Community College. "There's nothing like being a Pioneer, it's the family orientation it's not just built within our softball team, it's the entire community. It's the teachers that we know in our classroom, it's just everywhere the love that we get," said infielder Abby Johnson.