Residents in Butte, Montana may be more used to seeing bison, but an escaped circus elephant was a surprise when she was captured on video walking through the town streets. Viola, the 58-year-old ...

A local official told CBS News that the elephant caused minor damage to a storage area at the Butte Civic Center. A normal day in Montana took a turn when locals reported an unusual sighting ...

A normal day in Montana took a turn when locals reported an unusual sighting: an elephant on the loose in Butte. The incident was captured on video by stunned witnesses as the animal wove through ...

Montana Rep. Zinke and Sen. Daines introduced legislation to rename Charlie Dowd Veteran Affairs Clinic after veteran who saw ...

The mammoth animal was scheduled to appear on stage at Jordan World Circus in Butte, Montana, but before her act, Viola escaped and wandered through the city, a city official confirmed to CBS News.

An elephant got loose on Tuesday in Butte, Montana after escaping a traveling circus. The animal, reportedly named Viola, left the Jordan World Circus, which was set up at the Butte Civic Center ...

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Even as overall film employment dropped during the pandemic, it rose in Montana and continued to rise afterward — the biggest portion of it, in recent years, in and around Butte. But some worry ...