Politics Nov 06 Republican Tim Sheehy defeats Jon Tester, a 3-term incumbent, to flip Montana Senate seat The victory by the former U.S. Navy SEAL bolsters the GOP’s new Senate majority.
Nation Oct 10 12 rescued after deadly elevator malfunction in former Colorado gold mine One person was killed and 12 people were rescued after being trapped for about six hours at the bottom of a former Colorado gold mine when an elevator malfunctioned at the tourist site, authorities said.
Politics Aug 09 WATCH: Donald Trump speaks at campaign event in Montana The former president came to Montana hoping to remedy some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed bid to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
Nation Jul 03 U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another species from extinction U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins, the spotted owl.
Politics Jun 20 Biden administration won’t ban logging in old-growth forests, but new plan still vexes industry The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires, according to a U.S. government analysis obtained…
Nation Apr 27 Paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with fatal ketamine overdose avoids prison A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial…
Politics Mar 28 Biden administration restores protections for threatened species dropped by Trump Among the changes announced Thursday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.
Nation Mar 01 Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders He and a fellow paramedic who administered a sedative that contributed to McClain's death were convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide.
Nation Feb 27 Man to plead guilty for role in killing 3,600 birds, including eagles, to sell feathers The defendants allegedly sold eagle parts on a black market that has been a long-running problem for U.S. wildlife officials.
Science Feb 02 Feds won’t restore protections for gray wolves, propose national recovery plan The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials announced Friday that it has rejected petitions from environmental groups to add wolves in the northern Rockies and parts of the western U.S. to the Endangered Species List.