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• Firefighter injured in downtown Missoula blaze Play Video

  January 14, 2012 11:44 PM

  MISSOULA- One firefighter was injured battling a fire that broke out in downtown Missoula on Saturday. Missoula fire officials say the injuries he sustained were minor while fighting the fire at 321 North Higgins Avenue. The first fire engine responded just before 5 p.m. as smoke poured from the... more »

• New owners to keep Missoula Mercantile commercial

  January 11, 2011 12:25 AM

  MISSOULA - An iconic building in downtown Missoula that has sat empty for almost a year now has a new owner. The latest generation remembers it as Macy's or perhaps, The Bon Marché, but the brick building on Higgins Avenue began as the Missoula Mercantile. Its newest owner, Octagon... more »

• Busy Missoula street becomes car-free

  September 13, 2010 10:12 AM

  MISSOULA - Residents of the Garden City had a rare opportunity to walk down Higgins Avenue without sharing the road with cars on Sunday. Missoula in Motion and Missoula Parks and Recreation turned Higgins into a "car-free zone" for bikes and pedestrians only in an event similar to one... more »

• Missoula bridge inspection underway

  June 14, 2010 8:32 AM

  MISSOULA - The Montana Department of Transportation will be starting their biennial bridge inspection on the Higgins Avenue in Missoula on Monday morning. Officials say they will maintain two-lane traffic during the inspection and that the inside lane will be open for traffic at all times. The MDT... more »

• North Higgins resconstuction starting

  March 10, 2010 1:35 PM

  MISSOULA - The remaking of Missoula's North Higgins Avenue is slated to get started this week and come fall, North Higgins from Broadway to Circle Square at its north end will be easier and safer to use, as well as more pleasing to look at according to city officials. ... more »

• Missoula arson investigation continues

  March 1, 2010 2:01 PM

  MISSOULA - Missoula Police say they're looking at surveillance footage in the area of Southwest Higgins to help them with the investigation of an arson fire which destroyed several businesses last month. Police tell us while they don't have any suspects at this time, they are working with the... more »

• Missoula business fire investigation still on hold

  February 19, 2010 11:12 PM

  MISSOULA - A Missoula Fire Department official says that they will get together with a private insurance company next week to investigate the fire that destroyed several Missoula businesses. Investigator Gordy Hughes says they will go to the business mid next week to continue their investigation. The broke... more »

• Missoula business fire investigation on hold

  February 16, 2010 6:06 PM

  MISSOULA - The Missoula Fire Department is waiting for private insurance company investigators to come in and work with them in determining the cause of Monday's fire which destroyed several Missoula businesses. Missoula Fire Investigator Dax Fraser tells us they turned the building over to its owner and that... more »

• Investigation into Missoula fire to begin

  February 16, 2010 9:00 AM

  MISSOULA - Fire investigators will head back to the scene of a fire that destroyed several Missoula businesses early Monday morning later today. The damage caused by the blaze is so extensive that the roof collapsed, making the building very unstable. The fire started just after 4:30 Monday... more »

• Business owners react to Missoula blaze

  February 15, 2010 5:58 PM

  MISSOULA - Some Missoula business owners who lost most of their belongings in the fire are in disbelief about what happened on Monday morning. Southwest Higgins Avenue near High Park Way was reduced to one lane of traffic on Monday morning as Missoula police directed traffic and a thick... more »