A meteorologist specifically compared current drought conditions and national and global forecasts to what meteorologists ...

Scientists describe how they’re preparing for the upcoming field season despite the challenges. High Country News ’ weekly ...

With emergency crews already responding to wildfires in western Montana, authorities say they’re getting ready for what could be a more active fire season in the state.

Builders in wildfire-prone areas like Missoula must use more resilient materials to construct "hardened homes," a group of ...

The Flathead is on the cusp of summer uncertainty.  Given the current political and economic climate, tourism in the valley is markedly down and it doesn’t look like it will rebound any time soon.

Western Montana USFS fire Twice in ten years, southwestern Montana ranchers Dennis and Mykal Kirkpatrick have watched their ...

A University of Montana study found Rocky Mountain Labs generates hundreds of millions of dollars for the local economy.

The Trump administration’s mass federal layoffs and cancellation of research grants are having effects in communities far ...

Sheridan resident Sean Patrick Higgins is building a 47-acre film studio in Missoula, Montana, with a schedule to produce its ...

There is a lot of uncertainty today about our public lands, and whether we are going to be able to manage them effectively in the next few years. We have seen chaotic firings of Forest Service and ...

Both dogs, Bess and Beetle, also survived. Beetle was found by a hiker and returned to Stringham, who, after helping the ...

At these campgrounds near L.A., you can wake up among the trees and then take a short walk to a nearby trailhead.