Nation Jun 22 Yellowstone park reopens after flooding reshapes the landscape Several thousand cars, trucks and recreational vehicles are backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopens following destructive floods that closed the park last week.
Nation Jun 16 Montana's largest city restarts water plant as floodwaters from Yellowstone surge Montana's largest city has restarted its water plant after shutting it down amid record flooding that's caused widespread damage in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities.
Nation Jun 14 Historic flooding closes Yellowstone, over 10,000 evacuate Communities bordering Yellowstone National Park are isolated and tourists stranded after record floodwaters knocked out roads and bridges in Wyoming and Montana and forced the closure of all entrances to the park.
Politics May 24 Montana bans birth certificate changes, even after gender-confirming surgery Montana health officials say transgender people can't change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery.
Nation Mar 08 U.S. officials reverse finding that toxic pesticide may lead to dozens of wildlife extinctions U.S. wildlife officials have reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize dozens of plants and animals with extinction.
Science Feb 24 As economists warn of mounting climate change costs, Biden seeks to price damages Economists say the costs of climate change are growing as global warming happens more quickly than expected and its impacts become better understood -- from crop losses due to drought, to lessened worker productivity because of the heat.
Science Feb 23 Climate change is causing more wildfires and governments are unprepared, says U.N. A warming planet and land use changes mean more wildfires will scorch large parts of the globe in coming decades.
Politics Feb 16 Zinke misused position, lied to ethics official, according to federal investigators Government investigators say former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke misused his position to advance a Montana development project and lied to an agency ethics official about his involvement.
Nation Jan 18 Biden administration plans to increase controlled burns in Western states at risk for wildfires The Biden administration plans to significantly increase efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have been torching areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around areas where nature and neighborhoods collide.
Economy Dec 23 Company seeks to restore oil lease on land sacred to tribes The Badger-Two-Medicine area near Glacier National Park is the site of the creation story of the Blackfoot tribes of southern Canada and Montana's Blackfeet Nation.