Montana Representative Ryan Zinke is considering a 2018 run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Jon Tester.
An attorney for a newspaper and an advocacy group will try to persuade a federal judge to strike down a 14-year-old court order that made settlement talks on Butte's ongoing mining waste cleanup confidential.
The federal government released rules today designed to help states improve schools and narrow achievement gaps.
Missoula Mayor John Engen says he has been absent from his job for the past month because he was in a treatment program for alcoholism.
No new walleye have been found in Swan Lake, marking good news for the lake's trout population.
The Helena – Lewis and Clark National Forest has released its new proposed Forest Plan.
Ski season is underway at a pair of Montana resorts.
Record sugar beet harvests will keep refineries busy making sugar longer than usual.
A draft plan unveiled for two recently created Idaho wilderness areas prohibits campfires at high elevations to protect whitebark pine, and eliminates horses and other recreational stock in some areas to protect alpine soils.