Tourism has been part of Butte since the early 1900s. An observation car on the trolley line was inaugurated in a snowstorm on May 15, 1906, but with its expansion in 1909, the “Seeing Butte Car” carried thousands of visitors to all parts of the city, including Walkerville and Meaderville. The drive included a tour inside the Butte Reduction Works and culminated with a visit to Columbia Gardens, led by a “remarkably well-informed megaphone man” who provided information ranging from the number of school children to the monthly payroll generated by mining.

Uptown Butte is seeing the buds of economic development with a host of new businesses opening in and around its all-important Park Street corridor. BUTTE - Uptown Butte is seeing the buds of economic development with a host of new businesses opening in and around its all-important Park Street corridor.

Belinda Brooks Butte Tribe members are preparing the earth for the 2022 Butte Gardens. From tilling, fertilizing, irrigation prep and planting, the active members of the tribe are working to make this year’s family gardens as beautiful as hundreds of years before. Crops planted this year are squash, okra, mustard greens, turnips, tomatoes, peppers, Indian corn, sweet corn, purple hull peas, snap beans, Roman bush beans, radishes, cucumbers, watermelons and cantaloupe.

This undated photo shows a marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store that is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II. The bust, which art collector Laura Young found at Goodwill in 2018, once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art, which is temporarily displaying the piece until it is returned to Germany next year.

El Taco was established in 1972 and turns 50 this year. Johnna Scown, the manager at El Taco, fills an order on Wednesday afternoon at the Butte restaurant that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The interior of El Taco remains the same as it was when it was added to the business about 40 years ago.

The Met Gala has returned to the first Monday in May after years of pandemic upheaval with a celebration of American design and a theme of gilded glamour. Here are some of the best red carpet looks. Blake Lively, left, and Ryan Reynolds attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York.