Glacier National Park’s St. Mary Visitor Center reopens this morning. Fire officials say the Reynold’s Creek Fire now stands at over 32-hundred acres with 30-percent containment.
For decades, forest rangers in wooden towers across the West scanned the horizon with binoculars for smoke that could signal the start of a wildfire. Now, scientists in Nevada and California are helping federal land managers develop technology to expand a network of high-definition cameras to do the job, including one in northern Nevada that recently captured a blaze in real-time more than 100 miles away in Oregon.
A man serving a 70-year prison sentence for killing a German exchange student in his garage is surrendering all his guns to settle a lawsuit filed by the victim's family.
A California woman is going to prison for nearly five years because of false claims about a data storage project in Darby.
State regulators are considering whether to approve for the second time in five years construction through South Dakota of the long delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Dozens of Montana grandparents have organized to push back against a state agency they say has shut them out as caregivers and sometimes has placed grandchildren with parents they don't know.
More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.
Federal and state fisheries biologists say water that is 5 to 6 degrees warmer is wiping out at least half of this year's returning population of the cold-water species.