A woman on Windsong Way complained about someone from Jamaica who had called her numerous times that morning.

9:29 a.m. A resident of ZackJell Place reported that the neighbor’s miniature horses were on the loose again and eating his hay.

10:56 a.m. A woman on Stoneridge Drive came home to find a strange man in maroon snow pants standing next to her garage with a shovel. He left on foot and was last seen headed toward Foys Lake Road.

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It’s called “the ultimate food fight,” and you’d be hard-pressed to imagine a scene farther from the essence of uptown P-Burg.

In early November, with Food Network cameras cranking, Brent Schreyer and his UpNSmokin Barbecue team found themselves under one of glitziest and glitteriest features of Las Vegas.

The overhead Visa Vision at the west end of Fremont Street – 12 million LED lamps illuminating the world’s largest electric sign that stretches the length of five football fields over the street – is the lead attribute of Sin City’s Fremont Street Experience.

The World Food Championships, in their second year, draw the world’s best from qualifying competitions to cook in seven categories. Besides barbecue there are contests over four days in chili, burgers, desserts, sandwiches, bacon, recipes, as well as a chef challenge. The overall winner on Sunday is named the World Food Champion.

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Audubon's Christmas Bird Count, an annual tradition that excites families, communities, and the conservation movement, is here again. The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is the longest running Citizen Science survey in the world. The tradition began 114 years ago and is a long-standing program of Audubon, including in Montana.

The CBC is an early-wis count every bird they see or hear during one day in a designated 15-mile diameter circle.

This year's CBC will be conducted between December 14, 2013 and January 5, 2014. Details about exactly where, when and how to participate will be posted below

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Yellowstone National Park will open to the public for the winter season as scheduled on December 15.

Beginning at 7:00 a.m. Sunday morning, visitors will be able to travel to the park’s interior roads on commercially guided snowmobiles or snowcoaches from the North, West and South Entrances.  Travel through the park’s East Entrance over Sylvan Pass is scheduled to begin December 22. 

The road from the park’s North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana, through Mammoth Hot Springs and on to Cooke City, Montana, outside the park’s Northeast Entrance is open to wheeled vehicle travel all year.

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Montanans likely experienced some of the coldest temperatures on the planet in early December.

According to the National Weather Service in Great Falls, Havre set a daily record on Saturday. At its coldest, the temperature hit minus 39 degrees. 

According to Victor Proton, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Glasgow, temperatures of 43 degrees below zero were reported at the Edgar G. Obie Airport in Chinook about 22 miles from Havre.

Fort Peck was 37 below on Saturday. The Valley County town shattered its previous Dec. 7, record of minus 27, set in 1956.

Williston, N.D., bottomed out at 25 below zero, Greybull, Wyo. set a daily record at minus 21 and Boise, Idaho, hit 6 below.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the mercury stayed above zero, at 15 degrees.

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