It was a big day for the Blackfeet tribe today.
Wednesday morning, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced a negotiated settlement with an energy company to cancel oil and gas leases in the Badger Two Medicine area considered sacred to the tribe.
The Blackfeet water rights compact passed out of a key House committee Wednesday, moving next to the full House.
A Blackfeet woman who led a 15-year legal fight against the federal government over mismanagement of Indian trust funds will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the nation's highest civilian honor.
New forecasts are predicting a strengthening Montana economy and a modest revenue boost over the next two years.
A key author of the Clean Air Act and other landmark environmental laws, who was from Montana, has died.
Montana Trout Unlimited is asking the U.S. Forest Service to close public lands in the Smith River drainage to mineral exploration.