The Pulp

11/22/2024

After a false start, Montana Sauna Co. is scrambling to get up to code so it can open on Missoula's Westside.

After a false start, the sauna and cold plunge business is scrambling to get up to code so it can open on Missoula's Westside.

11/14/2024

From dive bars to fine dining, we biked, tasted and debated our way through Missoula’s burger scene. Here’s how the patties stack up. 🍔

11/08/2024

Local website that posted jail booking photos was an exercise in transparency. But when others put the mugshots on Facebook, they gave way to cruelty and extortion.

Local website that posted jail booking photos was an exercise in transparency, until it gave way to extortion.

11/08/2024

It’s the end of a political era. Will the party give up its ghosts?

11/03/2024

Understanding the dangerous alchemy that claimed a Missoula mom, and why such mental health crises disproportionately affect women.

11/01/2024

Finding Eva means a devastated Missoula family may, eventually, find closure.

A body recovered from the Clark Fork River on Oct. 13 has been identified as Eva Masin Prather, a 43-year-old mother of two who had been missing for more than nine months.

10/24/2024

With an unprecedented political ad blitz taking over Montana’s airwaves and cluttering our mailboxes and feeds, The Pulp’s election breakdown cuts through the noise and distortion.

10/17/2024

Missoula’s plan to convert Front and Main streets from one-ways to two-ways should make it easier to get around downtown while also boosting businesses. Skeptical? Billings can attest.

Missoula's plan to convert Front and Main streets from one-ways to two-ways should make it easier to get around downtown while also boosting businesses. Skeptical? Billings can attest.

10/17/2024

'The Passion to Persist' — which screens Thursday at the Wilma — captures Hadley Ferguson's perseverance as an artist known for her wildly positive outlook and generosity, despite everything, and whose work seems to get more vibrant all the time.

'The Passion to Persist', which screens Thursday at the Wilma, captures Ferguson's perseverance as an artist known for her wildly positive outlook and generosity, despite everything, and whose work seems to get more vibrant all the time.

10/17/2024

An expedition into the deepest known cave in the continental United States, hidden in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, pushes nearly a half mile underground. How much lower does it go?

10/09/2024

The not-so-tortured poets department of Charlie B’s, now in session.

10/04/2024

Missoula City Council considers with skepticism a resolution requiring more oversight over the Missoula Redevelopment Agency.

09/24/2024

On the Flathead Reservation — and on Indian reservations across the West — state-owned trust lands generate profits while infringing on tribal sovereignty.

09/18/2024

Montana POST used to release data about police officers. Then the attorney general stepped in.

09/12/2024

A half dozen independent child care centers are now operating in the shuttered Cold Springs Elementary School. As the space transforms, new ways of doing the business of child care are emerging, too.

09/11/2024

This is the first edition of Fresh Press, a new weekly newsletter from The Pulp devoted to Missoula government and politics, written and reported by Arren Kimbel-Sannit. Read and subscribe 👇

Does building a tony development in the South Hills do anything to contribute to housing affordability?

09/09/2024

In the early 1900s, Missoula’s red light district and rough-and-tumble saloons were located along West Front Street. As notorious as that made West Front, the alley that ran parallel to Front Street was even more notorious. Bounded by Front, Main, Higgins and Stevens (now Ryman) streets, Missoulians called this little thoroughfare “Paradise Alley,” and, later, “Pig Alley.”

The rise and fall of Missoula's Pig Alley.

09/06/2024

Last night, at the Independent News Sustainability Summit in Chicago, The Pulp was named “New Business of the Year” by LION Publishers. 🏆

In recognizing The Pulp’s startup strategy and pursuit of fiscal sustainability, the award honors the greater Missoula community’s support of this work — the nearly 1,000 individual donors who make it possible — at least as much as us, and we’re profoundly grateful.

But really, it's about the greater Missoula community’s support of this work. And we're so grateful.