The state’s draft plan comes months ahead of the federal timeline laid out by the Trump administration’s domestic policy bill. Tribal representatives urged Montana officials to slow down.

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation entered into a consent decree with Crazy Mountain Ranch on July 25, 2025.

State gets current with new rules for ‘seatless’ rides previously unauthorized on public roadways.

The U.S. Forest Service will abandon its nine regional offices as its parent Department of Agriculture consolidates out of Washington, D.C., according to a memo released by Agriculture Secretary ...

A building materials facility east of Missoula will lay off about 100 employees when it closes in September, the company announced Monday. UFP Edge, located in the Bonner Industrial Park, will close ...

This summer, MTFP reporters are partnering with hometown newsrooms across Montana — from Glendive to Anaconda — to bring deeply local stories to light. Your gift helps power this collaboration by ...

Politics and investigations reporter Tom Lutey has written about the West for 30 years, mostly from Montana and Washington. He has covered legislatures, Congress, courts, energy, agriculture and the ...

As wildfires worsen across the U.S., job uncertainty is combining with a growing mental health crisis and threatening the lives of wildland firefighters.

The fight over Shields Valley’s limited water supply has highlighted other enforcement challenges facing Montana.

Before Tim Sheehy was the frontrunner in Montana’s 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, the ex-Navy SEAL, aerial firefighter, millionaire business owner, part-time rancher and occasional political ...

Former Senate leader Jason Ellsworth was banned from the Senate floor for life as part of a censure stemming from an ethics investigation into a government contract awarded to a friend.

A majority of Montana Supreme Court justices ruled Monday that a trio of abortion restrictions passed by Republican lawmakers in 2021 were unconstitutional, concluding a yearslong legal challenge ...