4+ hour, 21+ min ago  (576+ words) Nearly three weeks after a 33-year-old hiker was killed in an apparent bear attack in Glacier National Park, questions continue to linger about what wildlife officials called a "stunningly rare" incident. At the top of the list, wildlife experts are…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (307+ words) The Montana lawsuit follows high-profile litigation over four hunters" use of corner crossing to access BLM land in Wyoming....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (620+ words) Can a hunter in Montana legally access "corner-locked" public land if they use a ladder to avoid adjoining private property? Is corner-crossing trespassing if a hunter is on horseback? How does the legal calculation change if the hunter uses a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (681+ words) Grizzly bear activity seemed to start with a roar on May 4 when two hikers were mauled in Yellowstone National Park. But the big bears have been active since close to New Year's Day. And that has Yellowstone wildlife experts bracing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (785+ words) Great Falls biorefinery Montana Renewables can now send hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater to disposal sites in nearby Pondera County after the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a permit application earlier this month. Pondera County officials told Montana Free…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1159+ words) Great Falls biorefinery Montana Renewables can now send its wastewater to disposal sites in Pondera County after the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a permit application on May 1. The company previously sent its wastewater to a disposal site in Idaho and…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago  (341+ words) A missing hiker in Glacier National Park appears to have been killed by a bear in what could be the first fatal bear encounter in the park in nearly 30 years." Anthony Pollio, 33, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was reported missing Monday…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago  (813+ words) A pair of voter opinion polls released this week show Montanans have strong affection for both public lands and federal workers. But a deeper look indicates that might not matter in the rough-and-tumble world of politics. Those same Montanans also…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (439+ words) The Postal Service was first to notice that something wasn't right with the ballot return envelopes in Gallatin County's 2026 school elections. When the envelopes containing the earliest returned ballots were scanned the week of April 20 by USPS, the destination came…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1132+ words) FAIRFIELD "Chuck Dale, Fairfield's water supervisor, wasn't satisfied with the rain that blew across northcentral Montana Wednesday. It wasn't nearly enough to refill the depleted wells in the 800-person town about 35 miles west of Great Falls. "Take a 30-foot cylinder,…...